On Loos, Ornament and Crime

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Lahuerta turns to the classical strand in Loos’s architecture and to his written work and specifically his engagement with architectural and artistic theory. Lahuerta pays particular attention to Loos’s seminal Ornament and Crime, the essay that established disornamentation as the signal feature of twentieth-century architecture. Through close analysis of that essay he unearths the racially charged, pseudoscientific ideas from early anthropology that underpin Loos’s thinking. Sure to be controversial, this new reading of Loos’s landmark writings calls the whole disornamentation project into question, and in the process, it reveals a radically new perspective on a major turn in modern design and culture.
Author Juan José Lahuerta
Language English
Published 2015
Binding PBK
ISBN 9788493923150
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