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Architecture

the polemic, from Loos, that applied ornament on modern buildings and objects is wasted labour and a sign of cultural backwardness.

In architecture, ornament and crime refers to the polemic, from Loos, that applied ornament on modern buildings and objects is wasted labour and a sign of cultural backwardness. This meaning comes from Loos (1998) in Ornament and crime.[1]

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References

Loos, A. (1998). Ornament and crime: Selected essays (M. Mitchell, Trans.; A. Opel, Ed.). Ariadne Press. ISBN 9781572410466

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