Ornament and Crime
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:30th May '19
Should be back in stock very soon
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture.
Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture
Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'.
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck
ISBN: 9780141392974
Dimensions: 180mm x 110mm x 26mm
Weight: 242g
352 pages