“Hello ! I found your episode on Loos’s Ornament and crime very useful , interesting, and necessary. Why useful and necessary ? Well, at least for me, I read the original short essay a couple of times but didn’t really understand what the great man was on about ! I needed explanatory notes, and your episode provided them. Loos’s reasoning about why ornament is a crime is explained better, I believe, in his other essay entitled “Architecture “. I look forward to listening to more episodes on modernist architecture : one on Italian Rationalism perhaps ? Again, thanks for helping me make sense of “Ornament and Crime “. The best way to understand an architect is of course to walk in his buildings ...”
Rockabilly1967 via Apple Podcasts ·
Italy ·
08/16/22