Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture.
Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture.
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LOOS. Masheck, Joseph. Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture. I.B. Tauris. 2013 95313 Masheck argues that Loos's masterful 'astylistic architecture' was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. 320 pp. Pap.
