Adolf Loos

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• Loos had written his intentions in a short brochure that accompanied his plans. He explained his desire to create a building that, seen only once, it would impress itself indelibly on the individual memory as the symbol of Chicago, in the way that St.Peter's incarnates Rome, and the leaning tower, Pisa. He recognized that it would be futile to hope to attain this objective when competing with skyscrapers of exceptional originality, already inscribed in history, or to reproduce a typical American building on which none would remark. Conversely, to adopt radical new forms that denied tradition--as did the proposals by several German, Austrian, and French architects--was to go against the mandate of the competition committee. Styles is non-traditional architecture were changing as frequently ... (查看原文)

  ZJJ 2012-05-29 22:41:31

• Loos always situated himself dialectically to the historic continuity of tradition: he took care to speak of concrete time and space, he opposed the quest for new froms as a refute of history, and more importantly, he criticized the privileged status of the architect as creator and genius. (查看原文)

  ZJJ 2012-04-11 08:44:19

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