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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Comfortable House Look Room

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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: After Appear Bank Courts Declare Gesture Here Honest Honest People Law Looked Money Must People Secret Secure Threatening Toward Vice Well Your

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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Bond Building Changes Even Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Improvement Inner Lie Old Only Otherwise Our Permitted Side Stay Stronger Than Traditional Truth Us Walks Way Years

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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Architectural Demand Form Regulate Supply

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It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: Because Bound Difficulties Does Forms Material Origin Simply Specific Stand Technical Up Use Way Whose

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

~Adolf Loos

Topics: City Dear Here Herself None Other Our Speak Than Vienna Which Wish I Wish

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Architect

Born: December 10th, 1870

Died: August 8th, 1933

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