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… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share
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… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
“I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument which covers… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
“Every period had its style: why was it that our period was the only one to be denied a style? By “style” was meant… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button,… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist.… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. — Adolf Loos Copy Share
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he… — Adolf Loos Copy Share
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. — Adolf Loos Copy Share
