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Adolf Loos

1870 - 1933

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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture, and convicted sex offender . He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism. Loos was born in Brno to a family of sculptors and stonemasons. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Loos is the 30th most popular architect, the 46th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Architect.

Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect who is most famous for his essay, "Ornament and Crime," in which he argues that ornamentation is a crime against architecture.

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Among architects, Adolf Loos ranks 30 out of 518. Before him are Renzo Piano, Otto Wagner, Frank Gehry, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Victor Horta, and André Le Nôtre. After him are Santiago Calatrava, Carlo Maderno, Henry van de Velde, Rem Koolhaas, I. M. Pei, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

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Among people born in 1870, Adolf Loos ranks 9. Before him are Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Sophia of Prussia, Franz Lehár, Jules Bordet, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After him are Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Ivan Bunin, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Albert Fish, and Karl Renner. Among people deceased in 1933, Adolf Loos ranks 6. Before him are Clara Zetkin, Faisal I of Iraq, Calvin Coolidge, Li Ching-Yuen, and Constantine P. Cavafy. After him are John Galsworthy, 13th Dalai Lama, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Paul Ehrenfest, Jimmie Rodgers, and Sándor Ferenczi.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Adolf Loos ranks 46 out of 1,200. Before him are Peter Grünberg (1939), Jan Palach (1948), Miloš Zeman (1944), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Klement Gottwald (1896), and Karl Kautsky (1854). After him are Johann Palisa (1848), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Václav Klaus (1941), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), and Madeleine Albright (1937).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Czechia

Among architects born in Czechia, Adolf Loos ranks 1. After him are Josef Hoffmann (1870), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), Jan Santini Aichel (1677), Adolf Lang (1848), Josef Gočár (1880), Jan Kotěra (1871), and Jan Kaplický (1937).

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