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Ornament and Crime

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This collection of essays by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) brings together key works written at the turn of the 20th century. In the title text, the author declares ornament a "crime" for civilized man and culture. The radical nature of his ideas is based on a rejection of ornamentation and a return to functional and constructive truth. Loos ridicules the "Potemkin" facades of Vienna and calls for a simplicity that is tantamount to true nobility. In Loos's categorical texts, aesthetic decisiveness is combined with a conservative rigor of form. These essays, based not on theoretical dogma but on manifesto and polemical fervor, anticipated the ideas of modernism and laid the foundations of 20th-century design.
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