Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
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Adolf Loos
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About Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Ever…
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.