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Adolf Loos
Austrian
Architect
About the author
Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#People
#Work
#Art
#Present
#Future
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#People
#Work
#Art
#World
#Comfort
#Being
#State
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Work
#Art
#Comfort
#Conservative
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#People
#Law
#Money
#Vice
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Work
#Art
#Artist
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Difficulties
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Architecture
#Art
#Nothing
#Monument
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Building
#Years
#Old
#Truth
#Lie
#Improvement
Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Truth
#Nature
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Being
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Past
#Present
#Tradition
#Beginning
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Architecture
#Man
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Adolf Loos,
Austrian
Architect
#Art
#Comfort
#Man