"Ornament and Crime" is an essay and lecture by modernist architect Adolf Loos that criticizes ornament in useful objects. Contrary to popular belief that...
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Ornament and Crime is the seventh studio album by American rock band Self. Originally intended for release in August of 2003, it was pushed back a year...
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In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental...
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songs from Ornament and Crime had been featured on the band's MySpace. After the album spent thirteen quiet years in limbo, Ornament and Crime was released...
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Adolf Loos (section Loos House and other projects)
piece The Story of a Poor Rich Man and his most popular manifesto, Ornament and Crime, which advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish...
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Form follows function (redirect from Form and function)
Austrian architect Adolf Loos gave a lecture titled "Ornament and Crime" in reaction to the elaborate ornament used by the Vienna Secession architects. Modernists...
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philosophy of design to a search for a design science. The essay "Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos from 1908 is one of the early 'principles' design-theoretical...
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Briana Lane (section Hosting and writing)
with Poolside and Ornament and Crime, their single On and On was released on July 21st, 2023. Cadeaux's next single with Ornament and Crime, Sparks in the...
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Postmodernism (redirect from Modernism and postmodernism)
Lippincott's Magazine. Loos, Adolf (1910). Ornament and Crime. Tafuri, Manfredo (1976). Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development (PDF). Cambridge:...
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Minimalism (section Design, architecture, and spaces)
early writings about minimalism in Ornament and Crime Some 1940s-era crime fiction of writers such as James M. Cain and Jim Thompson adopted a stripped-down...
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