biography
pronunciation:
[loos]
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| (1870–1933)
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| Architect and writer on design, born in Brno, S Czech Republic. After studying architecture in Dresden, and visiting America (1893–6), he settled in Vienna in 1896. One of the major architects of the ‘Modern Movement’, he is particularly remembered for articulating the view that ornament is decadent; his essay Ornament and Crime (1908) attacks both revivalist and more recent Art Nouveau ornament. His designs reflect this view, notably the Villa Karma, Clarens, Switzerland (1904–6). |
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