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Name: Adolf Loos
Birth Date: December 10, 1870
Death Date: August 23, 1933
Place of Birth: Brno, Moravia
Nationality: Austrian
Gender: Male
Occupations: architect

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Biography of Adolf Loos
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The Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was one of the pioneers of modern architecture at the turn of the century. Adolf Loos was born in Brünn (Brno), now in the Czech Republic but then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on December 10, 1870,...


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Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August, 1933) was one of the most important and influential Austrian architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay "Ornament and Crime" he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the...


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The Architectural Review
FASHIONING VIENNA: ADOLF LOOS'S CULTURAL CRITICISM.(Review) (book review)
09/01/2000: 347 words, approx. 1 pages
By Janet Stewart. London: Routledge. 2000. [pound]19.99 For an architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was one of the most prolific, notorious and widely travelled cultural critics of his time. His epochal essay, 'Ornament and Crime' (1908), was an intellectual touchstone for many subsequent...
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The Modern Language Review
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism.(Book Review)
01/01/2003: 1,066 words, approx. 4 pages
Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism. By JANET STEWART. London and New York: Routledge. 2000. xii + 220 pp. 60 [pounds sterling] (pbk 19.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-415-22176-5 (pbk 0-415-22177-3). The Viennese architect Adolf Loos has long been named with Kraus, Schonberg,...
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The New York Observer
Into the Woody
6/19/2007: 553 words, approx. 2 pages
MERE ANARCHYBy Woody Allen Random House, 160 pages, $21.95 THE INSANITY DEFENSE: THE COMPLETE PROSE By Woody Allen Random House, 342 pages, $15.95 Like every other kind of writer, humorists go in and out of fashion. Nobody seems to read Stephen Leacock anymore,...
 


 

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