…As an architect he appears as one of the first to build in a manner that really valued simplicity of form as a virtue in itself, yet usually spoiled that simplicity by usages that willfully departed from it, or materials that concealed it. As a write he was prolific and usually well-informed, yet much of his influence depends upon one, or possibly two, of his most opinionated essays. As a person he was turbulent, combative, contradictory and capable of turning personal quarrels into public crusades, yet he was admired and courted, and people are still proud to claim his acquaintance, twenty or more years after his death. (查看原文)
The subject of this essay – the status of architectural decoration – was not a new one, and in the early years of the century was a very live issue. But Loos’s attitude towards the subject goes far beyond that of any of his contemporaries, and directly contradicts that of some of the most influential bodies of opinion, notably the Werkbund... (查看原文)
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The MIT Press1980版
0 有用 pukas 2013-03-20 20:58:14
zhong
1 有用 又四日 2011-05-17 17:59:47
及其详实，看起来有些吃力。。应该适合专业人士吧。但翻译不算很顺畅。
4 有用 Rapheal 2015-07-20 17:02:12
现代建筑的未来主义谱系（学院/未来主义之间）
4 有用 qingfan 2014-05-29 16:53:57
在破不在立，行文较零碎。从柯布一章来看，逐段批评柯布的文本，对建筑的认识不深，说文字游戏也未尝不可。
0 有用 DannyQ 2012-06-23 13:29:41
很老的书了