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Adolf Loos
Architect
1870 – 1933
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Who was Adolf Loos?
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he abandoned the aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1870
Brno - Spouses
- Claire Beck Loos
(1929 - )
- Claire Beck Loos
- Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Education
- Dresden University of Technology
- Lived in
- Brno
- Died
- Aug 23, 1933
Vienna - Resting place
- Zentralfriedhof
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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