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Adolf Loos, the enigmatic Moravian-born architect, at 150

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 12:21 p.m.

Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Loos, a pioneering modernist architect raised in Brno, who left a rich legacy also in Vienna, Prague and beyond. He is perhaps best known for the radical philosophy that “ornament is crime”  and multidimensional design of interior spaces, which Loos called simply the ‘Raumplan” .