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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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