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Beauty, Ornament and Crime: Adolf Loos and Leon Battista Alberti on Ornament
Architecture News - Mar 12, 2008 - 00:07 9128 views
Loos` famous essay, Ornament and Crime, written in 1908, "was thecause of riots among applied artists in Munich, but received withrapturous applause when delivered as a lecture in Berlin." Ornament and Crimeshowcases his extensive views on culture and ornament and the titlebecame, "a catchword for many, known even to people who never knewwhere it came from."
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