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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Autor Principal: Cremasco, Matteo Santi
Formato: Online
Idioma:por
Publicado: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. 2012
Acceso en liña: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.