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Cultural evolution is synonymous with the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Adolf Loos

If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos

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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.

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Ornament and Crime
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Spoken into the void

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