Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. Adolf Loos Read Quote
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. Adolf Loos Read Quote