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“ORNAMENT AND CRIME”.

March 21, 2014 at 11:39 PM · Architecture, art, History

“ORNAMENT AND CRIME”. The title of the essay by Adolph Loos in which he called for everything to be white was “Ornament and Crime”. This article in wikipedia says that: “Loos introduced a sense of the ‘immorality’ of ornament, describing it as ‘degenerate’, its suppression as necessary for regulating modern society.”