Adolf Loos

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Adolf Loos (1870-1933)

Controversial in both private and professional circles, the life and work of Loos are reviewed by Paul Davies

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Loos and Baker: a house for Josephine

Adolf Loos’s lost house for Josephine Baker marked a seminal moment in the expression of cultural and social modernity

Egyptian lotus capitals, from Owen Jones' The Grammat of Ornament, 1968

The problem with ornament
Colin Crickmay, house at Jordans, c.1937

Reinventing the traditional house in the age of Modernism
Striped house in Kensington, London

The curious history of striped architecture

Ornament and crime

Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed. In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit.

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