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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.


Adolf Loos  Adolf Loos
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos[1] (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf loːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czech architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. His essay Ornament and Crime advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish decorations of the fin de siècle, as well as the more modern aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession, exemplified in his design of Looshaus, Vienna. Loos became a pioneer of modern architecture and contributed a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture and design and developed the "Raumplan" (literally spatial plan) method of arranging interior spaces, exemplified in Villa Müller in Prague.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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 Tags: City Speak Wish I Wish Here Other
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It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

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 Tags: Stand Way Difficulties Up Origin
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

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 Tags: Demand Form Architectural Regulate
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

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 Tags: Truth Lie Improvement Building Bond
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

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 Tags: Look House Comfortable Room
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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

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 Tags: Work Art People World Comfort House
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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 Tags: Work Home Art Artist Please Everyone
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Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

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