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Adolf Loos, Villa Moissi, Venice, Italy, 1923 Adolf Loos was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1870. His father was a stonemason and was died when Adolf was nine years old. He refused to continue his father business against his mother’s well. His mother disowned him when he was 23 years old. He studied at the Imperial State Technical college in Liberec after a while studying there he left the school to serve in the army for two years. After that he went back to college and moved to united states and worked several other survival jobs until he start to work with architect Karl Mayreder in Vienna after that he was able to established his career around 1897. After a while he also started his own school of architecture. Even though Adolf Loos was famous he was more famous for his ideas and writings. After he opened his own practice he became friends with a lot of free thinker and expressionist. Adolf was well known for his 1908 essay about Ornament. He also opposite ornament and ...

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...