Ornament and Crime

Overview

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'.Translated by Shaun WhitesideWith an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

Details

Publisher

Penguin UK

Published

2019-05-30

Pages

352

Language

EN

Categories

Architecture / Criticism, Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays, Art / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy / Aesthetics, Design / Essays, Art / Movements / Modernism, Design / Decorative Arts, Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General

ISBN-13

9780141392981