The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. - Adolf Loos
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
- Adolf Loos
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable. - Adolf Loos
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the … - Adolf Loos
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the …
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. - Adolf Loos
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth. - Adolf Loos
Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.
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… - Adolf Loos
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…
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. - Adolf Loos
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.
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built… - Adolf Loos
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built…
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does … - Adolf Loos
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does …
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