Adolf Loos

In Adolf Loos’ “Ornament and Crime”, the author has a forthright stance on ornamentation. According to Loos, implementation of embellishment disables society from progressing forward in contemporary culture. Referencing to the Papuan’s choice to decorate without restraint, Loos delineates a stark contrast between modern and tribal perspectives relating to ornamentation. In other words, the “evolution of culture” removes the dependency on decoration as a means of expression (Loos, 167). In addition, Loos warns the individual that style and ornamentation are not interchangeable; style evokes new facets of meaning while ornamentation augments superfluousness. Loos claims people tend to associate simplicity and minimalism as synonymous with terms…

ago can still resonate today. However, like the ripples of a pebble thrown in a pond minutes ago, the world still feels the impact of Austrian architect, Adolf Loos. Loos was a man of intense opinions and a reflecting portfolio. The blunt forms of his buildings were in tune with the tones of his writings and opinions on architecture. He saw architecture as a movement and progression that was beyond any one man’s ability to change. Furthermore, he waged war against those who tried, insisting…

Introduction Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier were two of the world's leading pioneers in architecture and the most influential European theorists and critics of Modern architecture. Loos' most known writing was "Ornament and Crime," which encouraged the removal of decoration and the use of smooth and clear surfaces, in contrast to the lavish decorations that appeared at that time. His white stripped-down buildings influenced minimal massing in modern architecture and expressed lack of…

In fact, the notion is actually the reverse from what people thought. “The Poor Rich Man” by Adolf Loos illustrates the life of a newly rich man living in a house. The house was furnished and the owner’s clothes were designed by a designer, who also defined where should he use each of the apparels throughout his house. For the designer, there was no reason to change or add new objects. This story aims to show that the Secession houses were like a sarcophagus because life was coagulated in the…

characterised through state recruiting, training soldiers and creating efficient methods of validating actions in addition to planning how the genocide will take place. Hitler founded the Hitler Youth as a movement to indoctrinate the younger generations with Nazi ideals and invest in the future. Thus it is evident that recruitment not only occurred in the form of military personnel, but also of impressionable children, who made extremely capable and reliable spies. The Schutzsaffel (SS) was…

In these camps “the death rates were so high, from malnutrition, typhus and exhaustion that the disposal of corpses became a serious problem.” (THE CAMPS) The treatment in transporting and caring for the victims is probably one of the main factors in the dehumanization of people during Holocaust. The victims were treated inferior simply because of their nationality. The Nazi’s made it a point to degrade these people in every way possible by taking away their rights and free will.…

The Holocaust was a tragic event that took the lives of 11 millions Jews, homosexuals, disabled people and gypsies. Although a majority of the Jews killed during the Holocaust came from Germany, a good portion also came from other European countries including Poland, France, Austria and the Netherlands. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 began the twelve-year period of torment for Jewish people who lived in Europe. There are many factors that led up to the…

Holocaust took anti-Semitism to the extreme, anti-Semitism has prevailed for over two thousand years. The origins of anti-Semitism lay deep in human history, dating back to biblical times. Prior to the nineteenth century, anit-Semitism evolved from conflict over religious beliefs, into a policy of political and social exclusion and degradation. The common attribute of anti-Semitism through the ages is that Jews have been targeted because others have perceived them to be different. The first…

The decades of 20 and 30 were marked by suffering and struggle for rights around the world, for example in South America and Europa. In Brazil a dictator government was being implemented by Getúlio Vargas, while in Germany not only a new and severe government, however new ideals and beliefs were dominating through the Nazism ruled by Adolf Hitler, who manipulated so much the German people’s mind that they started supporting him in the atrocities he was commenting. In this period many battles…

Germans Serving Under Maniacal Leaders German soldiers fought the Führer’s ideological war. Hitler wanted the German race to take over the world. Heinrich Bölls book, And Where Were You, Adam?, describes several soldiers and their lives at the end of World War II. In the chaos of war, they found various reasons to capitulate with the Holocaust and other atrocities, but at the same time, tried to find some normalcy and sanity in an insane situation. Just as other warriors in other…