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Adolf Loos

1870 - 1933

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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Loos has received more than 720,113 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Loos is the 30th most popular architect (down from 26th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 33rd 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

Among architects, Adolf Loos ranks 30 out of 518. Before him are Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Victor Horta, Santiago Calatrava, Henry van de Velde, and André Le Nôtre. After him are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Peter Behrens, Carlo Maderno, Ictinus, Tadao Ando, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Adolf Loos ranks 8. Before him are Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Franz Lehár, Jean Baptiste Perrin, and Jules Bordet. After him are Albert Fish, Miguel Primo de Rivera, William G. Morgan, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, and Karl Renner. Among people deceased in 1933, Adolf Loos ranks 4. Before him are Clara Zetkin, Li Ching-Yuen, and Calvin Coolidge. After him are Faisal I of Iraq, Constantine P. Cavafy, 13th Dalai Lama, John Galsworthy, Paul Ehrenfest, Sándor Ferenczi, Mohammed Nadir Shah, and Nikolai Yudenich.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Adolf Loos ranks 44 out of 1,200. Before him are Klement Gottwald (1896), Karl Kautsky (1854), Emil Zátopek (1922), Max Brod (1884), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), and Bernard Bolzano (1781). After him are Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Antonín Panenka (1948), Gerty Cori (1896), and Josef Masopust (1931).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Czechia

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

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