Apartment Therapy LA (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In his essay Ornament & Crime, famous architect Adolf Loos believed that it was a crime to add ornamentation to any smooth surface and that doing so would cause the object to go out of style. He went
core77.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The Swiss Architecture Museum presents a redefining architecture exhibit, showing now until September 21st, 2008: Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, "Re-sampling Ornament" takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence. For decades the language of architectural ornament...
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The design exhibition Brno Echo: Ornament and Crime from Adolf Loos to Now, curated and designed by Abbott Miller, opens today at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic.
Dexigner Design Portal (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse Re-sampling Ornament takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence For decad
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Film Reviews: Filmmaker Heinz Emigholz's ongoing project to film the buildings of key modernist architects continues with the fascinating "Loos Ornamental," chronologically tracking the work of influential Austrian architect Adolf Loos.
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Designer Talia Elena Radford Cryns won Austria's National Design Award, the "Adolf Loos Staatspreis Design", for the Ergoskin concept shirt. The garment would be able to detect the wearer's posture and signal back to correct it. The idea is indeed intriguing, as the main problem with correcting one's postures is having to keep the issue in mind. More from creativeDNAaustria... (hat tip: Gizmodo)...
Castrovalva (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
G eorge Szirtes writes of the connections between artistic form and political content: "The normally unquestioned assumption is that Modernism is a left wing movement. One assumes that, rightly, of the Constructivists and to some extent of the Bauhaus. We know that the Viennese architect Adolf Loos wanted to do away with all ornament, primarily because ornament was bourgeois. We know that pitched roofs...
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
"Architecture projects space into this world. Cinematography translates that space into pictures projected in time. Cinema then is used in a completely new way: as a space to meditate on buildings." —Heinz Emigholz I thought I was going to have my work cut out for me when I decided to preview the Pacific Film Archive's Heinz Emigholz retrospective—"Architecture As Autobiography" —which broke ground...
DOS HERMANOS (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Walk around collecting Turkish union dues They will call you sir and shine your shoes According to the firm Mercer Consulting, Vienna is one of the most liveable cities in the World. In fact, it's equal third with Vancouver but behind Zurich and Geneva. The index used looks at factors such as safety, political stability, blah, blah, blah. After my weekend break I think they
Crap Detector! (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
menu card design for Miss Cranston's Cafes at the 1911 Glasgow International exhibition
Archaeolog (Free subscription) | 12/22/2007
Ömür Harmansah ~ October 2, 2007 ~ Blue State cafe. ---- N.B. This piece was written in the context of my graduate seminar The Rise (and Demise) of the State in the Near East taught at Brown University's Joukowsky Institute...
Design Observer: Main Posts (Free subscription) | 11/24/2007
Do you make things look nice? Do you spend more time worrying about nuance and aesthetics than substance and meaning? Do you fiddle with style while ignoring the big picture? If your answers are yes, yes, or yes, then you are a decorator.
loud paper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
Guggenheim Jimmy over at Life Without Buildings culled through the work of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm (on view at MUMOK). The sculptures featured are somewhere between melting and inflating, like marshmallows in the microwave. And yes, there is a bit...
documents (Free subscription) | 10/19/2007
I Adolf Loos : " When walking through a wood, you find a rise in the ground, six foot long and three foot wide, heaped up in a ro ugh pyramid shape, then you turn serious, and something inside you says: someone lies buried here. That is architecture". (Sourced here ). II In " Symbolic Exchange And Death ", Baudrillard contrasts the meaning of death in primitive and modern societies. Baudrillard's...
The Infinite Sphere (Free subscription) | 08/18/2007
For other uses of the term, see: Ornament In architecture , ornament is a decorative detail used to embellish parts of a building or interior furnishing. Ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament . A wide variety of decorative styles and motifs have been developed for architecture and the applied arts, including...
