Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Adolf Loos
Born: December 10, 1870
Died: August 23, 1933 (aged 62)
Bio: Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect and influential European theorist of Modern architecture.
Known for:
- Ornament and Crime
- Adolf Loos
- On architecture
- Spoken into the void