Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos Born Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (1870-12-10)10 December 1870 Brünn (Brno), Austria-Hungary Died 23 August 1933(1933-08-23) (aged 62) Vienna, Austria Buildings Steiner House, Goldman & Salatsch Building (Looshaus) Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) 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 and design.