Adolf Loos
Austrian and Czech architect and art collector (1870-1933)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Early 20th-century Austrian architect who picked fights with Art Nouveau and shaped modernist theory through writing as much as buildings. His polemic essays did as much damage to ornament as his sparse interiors did.
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos 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.
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