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Adolf Loos
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Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
Adolf Loos was an influential Austrian and Czech architect and art collector who lived from 1870 to 1933. He is significant for his contributions to architectural design during a transformative period in modern architecture.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1870
- Died
- 1933
- Works
- 41
Top works
- Орнамент і Злочин
- Spoken into the void
- The architecture of Adolf Loos
- Ornament and Crime
- Adolf Loos
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 86
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 8,923x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,604x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,397x
- Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,219x
- A Common Variant in the
<i>FTO</i>
Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity
· 2007 · cited 3,710x
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Quotes
- “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 their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”
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Wikidata facts
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- Adolf Loos (1870–1933) (vor 1920; Franz Löwy).jpg
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- Commons category
- Adolf Loos
- date of birth
- 1870-01-01
- date of death
- 1933-03-28
- Commons gallery
- Adolf Loos
- name in native language
- Adolf Loos
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/574-loos-adolf
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Article
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos ( German: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
Loos was born in Brno to a family of sculptors and stonemasons. His father, a stonemason who was almost deaf, died when he was 9 and played a role in Loos' interest in arts and crafts. Loos later inherited his father's hearing impairment and other health-related issues. His lack of hearing contributed to his solitary personality. Loos had three tumultuous marriages that all ended in divorce, and was convicted as a pedophile in 1928.