Architecural style of Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos was born in Brunn, Czechoslovakia on December 10, 1870. His father was a stonemason and a sculptor, and at a young age he received training in his father's trade. He had much interest in architecture however, and went to Dresden to study it from 1890 to 1893. Then after a few years of working in the United States as a mason, a floor layer, and a dishwasher, Loos returned to Vienna ready to be an architect. He joined a builders' firm there in 1896 (Kunstler 25).

Loos became known for his very modern views on architecture. He didn't see architecture as just an art, he saw it as a way of updating people's lifestyles to truly more modern ones. Loos also felt that all building methods should be supported by reason, he believed that if an architectural work could not be justified on rational grounds, then it was just for show and should be eliminated. (www.greatbuildings.com).

To Adolf Loos, there was always a big difference between architecture and art. He saw architecture mostly as a way of helping the people of his time move forward into a more modern age by designing things that were more modern and unlike other things being built at that time. "Architecture is not ar

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