Work
Ornament and Crime
Explore in the Atlas →Loos's polemical lecture equating decoration with cultural backwardness, a foundational text of modernist anti-ornamentalism.
Production Power Ephemerality
Details
- Type
- Essay
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Modernism
Referenced by
- Adolf Loos authored
Sources
- Adolf Loos. Ornament und Verbrechen (Ornament and Crime). lecture, Akademischer Verband für Literatur und Musik, Vienna, 1910.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Ornament and Crime." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/ornament-and-crime/. Accessed July 17, 2026.