Ornament and Crime

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

Product details

• Authors: Adolf Loos, Loos Adolf
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2019
• EAN: 9780141392974
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139297-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 401 g
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, Individual architects & architectural firms, Decorative arts, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays, DESIGN / Essays, Modernism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Individual architects and architectural firms