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-Austrian modern architect Adolf Loos, that is, from his 1908 booklet Ornament and Crime
Space: Sans-Serif Fresca 2010
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-Austrian modern architect Adolf Loos, that is, from his 1908 booklet Ornament and Crime
Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010
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He influenced a generation of architects through his teaching and mentoring, such as Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, and Josef Olbrich.
Modernist Architecture Hels 2009
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He influenced a generation of architects through his teaching and mentoring, such as Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, and Josef Olbrich.
Archive 2009-04-01 Hels 2009
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The young doctor, a bachelor, is "a devotee of all things modern," from Adolf Loos's unadorned architecture to Dr. Freud's talking-cure; the portly police inspector, for his part, is a melancholy family man who savors the old-fashioned excesses of a city where the ornate train-station façade is worthy of an opera house.
Vienna Twilight Tom Nolan 2011
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In 1900, well before the Palais Stoclet's completion in late 1911, Adolf Loos published an essay, "The Poor Little Rich Man," satirizing the Gesamtkunstwerk concept.
An Enchanted House Becomes a Family's Curse Michael Z. Wise 2012
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Kitnick's thoughts on decoration draw on Austrian architect Adolf Loos, whose 1908 article "Ornament and Crime" proclaimed, "the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornamentation from objects of everyday use."
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Kitnick's thoughts on decoration draw on Austrian architect Adolf Loos, whose 1908 article "Ornament and Crime" proclaimed, "the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornamentation from objects of everyday use."
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You want a fireman's pole running through three floors, like the one Adolf Loos designed for Josephine Baker's house in Paris?
Cynthia Kling: Restoring a House in the City: An Interview With Ingrid Abramovitch 2009
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The functionalist, antiseptic ideals so prominent in today's architecture were predicted in the work of Adolf Loos.
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