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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos, born December 10, 1870, was an Austrian and Czech architect who was highly influential on European theorists of modern architecture. His personal life on the other hand, held problems; Loos suffered from poor health, a hearing affliction, pedophilia claims against him, and three marriages that broke off in divorce. Loos’ father had died when he was nine, and his mother took over his father’s stonemason business while Loos went to school. Adolf Loos attended several Gymnasium schools, a technical school in Liberec, and graduated in 1889 from a technical school in Brno; later, he went to study at the Dresden University of Technology but dropped out after a year. Loos traveled to the United stated and stayed there for three years. While staying he lived with his relatives in Philadelphia (1893-1896). He traveled to many places, and one in particular was the World’s Columbian exposition in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. He moved back to...