Adolf Loos
(1870-1933)
Austrian Architect
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. His essay Ornament and Crime advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish decorations of the fin de siècle, as well as the more modern aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession, exemplified in his design of Looshaus, Vienna. Loos became a pioneer of modern architecture and contributed a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture and design and developed the "Raumplan" (literally spatial plan) method of arranging interior spaces, exemplified in Villa Müller in Prague.
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos 10 December 1870 Brno, Austria-Hungary
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23 August 1933 (aged 62) Vienna, Austria
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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