The Architectural Review, September 1st, 2000
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 architects, including Le Corbusier, who, with unusual generosity, included a French translation in the second number of l'Esprit Nouveau. As in the case of Le Corbusier, literary discourse for Loos was a means of polemically advancing a range of cultural and architectural ideals. This kind of discourse often ...
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