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16 quotes by 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...
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of... →

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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if... →

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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on... →

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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by... →

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Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that... →

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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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