Ornament & Crime
Ornament and Crime is an essay written by the influential Austrian architect Adolf Loos in 1908. In it he expresses his philosophy that ornamentation can have the effect of causing objects to go out of style and thus become obsolete. It struck him that it was a crime to waste the effort needed to add ornamentation when the ornamentation would cause the object to soon go out of style. The essay was important in articulating the views that were fundamental to the Arts and Crafts movement and to the Bauhaus design studio, and led to Modernism in architecture. Ornament and Crime is also the name of an album by the band known as Self.
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