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Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos was born in 1870 in the Czech Republic to German parents. He attended technical colleges in Austria and Germany in the late 19th century, studying architecture. In the 1890s he traveled extensively in the United States where he was influenced by Louis Sullivan's form-follows-function aesthetic. In 1908 he published his famous essay "Ornament and Crime" criticizing decorative elements in design. Two of his most controversial works were the stark modern Looshaus in Vienna in 1910, which angered the Austrian emperor, and his unornamented entry for the 1922 Chicago Tribune tower competition. His final work, the Villa Müller in Prague completed in 1930, is considered the culmination of his anti-ornamental
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