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Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos
Austrian Architect
Born: Dec 10, 1870
Died: Aug 23, 1933
Architecture Art Being Comfort People Work
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
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
Work Art Home Matter Please Everyone Everyone Please House Does Private Contrary Artist Which
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. Adolf Loos
Art Man Everything Draw Out Secured Hates He Thus House Him Comfort His Wants Loves Acquired Satisfies Position
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos
Man Architecture Those Architect More Make Task Precise Sentiments Therefore
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. Adolf Loos
Work Future Art People Architecture Directions New House Shows Present Thinks
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Adolf Loos
Past Before Beginning Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Abandoned Point Renew Because Built Tradition Times Intend Just Century Present
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. Adolf Loos
People Money Law Gesture Secret Secure Must Threatening Toward Looked Well Courts Bank Vice After Declare Your Appear Here Honest Honest People
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos
Speak Wish Other Herself Our City None Dear Than Which Vienna Here
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. Adolf Loos
Work Art People World State Everyone Draw Out Responsible Brought House Comfort Without None Being Wants Requirement Satisfies Need
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Adolf Loos
Work Art Conservative House Comfort Revolutionary Serve
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 it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. Adolf Loos
Truth Lie Old Stronger Building Walks Changes Otherwise Side Our Hundreds Way Hundreds Of Years Stay Only Permitted Traditional Years Traditional Way Than Improvement Us Even Inner Bond
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way. Adolf Loos
Difficulties Way Simply Bound Because Does Material Up Forms Stand Use Origin Whose Technical Specific

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