Adolf Loos: an allegory of modernity
This essay presents the idea of modernity through Adolf Loos’development of four texts written during the early 20th century -Story of a Poor Rich Man, Ornament and Crime, Architecture, andThe Superfluous Ones. He highlights three key points in hisarguments (purity of art and architecture, the freed...
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Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo.
2012
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| Online adgang: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/posfau/article/view/52456 |
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| Summary: | This essay presents the idea of modernity through Adolf Loos’development of four texts written during the early 20th century -Story of a Poor Rich Man, Ornament and Crime, Architecture, andThe Superfluous Ones. He highlights three key points in hisarguments (purity of art and architecture, the freedom of man, andthe progress of history) as well as their relationships with thephilosophies of Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. |
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