Ornament und Verbrechen – 2.0 – Ornament and Crime

When in 1910 Adolf Loos gave his lecture and subsequently published his essay “Ornament and Crime” it was a reaction to the Arts and Crafts movement with its overly decorated output. Loos’ insights paved the way for modernist thinking and the elimination of decoration in architecture for the benefit of visual simplicity. Merged with the […]