Openness and Flexibility
Ornamentation and Crime Summary: In 1908, Adolf Loos, an Austrian architect, described in Ornament and Crime how ornamentation is not fitting for the modern world. He believes that we must remove ornamentation from functional objects for society to evolve. There...
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Summaries Leaving Traces by Hilde Heynen With Modernism Hilde argues that the idea of the Home began to shift. People slowly did not want to live in a place of refuge, but rather a place that gently guided them to leave. With globalization on the rise people were...
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Summaries Ornament and Crime The decoration and ornamentation of the body and other items in general, is seen as something extremely negative to the author. He makes it very clear how he feels about tattoos from the get-go. It's made pretty apparent that those...
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Summaries Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loose In this article, the author argues that ornamentation is no longer an expression of our culture. Nowadays, the society lacks an appreciation of ornamentation. From a moral concept and an economic view, the author mentions...
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SUMMARIES Ornamentaion and Crime Loos describes how, in the modern age, the process of ornamentation stagnates the "evolution" of culture and society, and describes ornamentation as a crime. The foundation of his argument hinges on the idea that the world is...
Modernism & Simplicity
Summary of "Ornament and Crime" In this horrendously racist and sexist article, Adolf Loos argues that to be modern is to do away with ornamentation entirely. To support this argument, he claims that the true “modern man” (read: white intellectual) is above all...
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Summaries Ornament and Crime I will admit that this is one of the hardest readings I have ever done, not because of its difficulty of understanding, although I wish it were, but because of its hateful and demeaning rhetoric. I cannot in good conscience look past...
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Ornament and Crime written by Adolf Loos Ornamentation in the eyes of Adolf Loos is completely unacceptable. He believes that with the removal of ornamentation with be unison with the evolution of culture. Loos sees the addition of ornamentation as something that...
Bleak Ornamentation & Abstract Interiors
Summary: Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos Adolf Loos attempts to define the hallmark of a culture’s evolution: the direct correlation that a more evolved culture has no ornamentation on its everyday objects. Loos believes a true modern, civilized person is “beyond...
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Summaries: Ornament and Crime: The first half of this article begins with explaining some childhood developmental stages, and compares Papuan people to children or animals. Calling them amoral and looking down upon them. It continues on by bringing about his main...
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Loos, Adolf. 1998 [1908]. “Ornament and Crime.” In Ornament and Crime : Selected Essays. Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press. Future generation discern colors in solar spectrum Child is amoral People with tattoos are degenerates Art is erotic Main Idea: Evolution of...
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Loos, Adolf. 1998 [1908]. “Ornament and Crime.” In Ornament and Crime : Selected Essays. Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press. With fire and brimstone from his pulpit, Loos, decries the use of, and need for ornamentation in the modern mans (not Womans) life. But if...
Is Ikea Anti-Capitalist?
Author: Alex S. Summary of Ornament and Crime (1929) and Ornament and Education (1924) by Adolf Loos What place does ornamentation have in modern architecture? Perhaps very little, according to Adolf Loos. The value of ornamentation is dependent on several factors:...
On “Progress”
Adam Martin Reading Summaries "Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos The basic argument here is that human beings, both on an individual and societal scale, inevitably progress; further, that we (as early 20th century European men) have progressed beyond the need or...
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Ornament and Crime (1929) - Adolf Loos - Summary Loos believes that all ornamentation in the way of tattoos, painting and other aristocratic measures are childish babble. He claims his discovery is, “ The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of...
Week 4 Reading Responses – Interiors and Ornamentation
Response 1: Leaving Traces Anonymity in the modernist house Summary In this chapter, Hilde Heynen explains and confronts how one feature of the modernist movement was a paradox of home and homelessness. Heynen notes how because modernism relied on clean lines, new...