If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
Adolf Loos
— Adolf Loos
And Czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture
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Adolf Loos was Czech and czechoslovak architect and theorist of modern architecture. Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. Read more on Wikipedia →

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