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Lecture 3 (Question 2)

2. What was Loos / Banham / Rykwert arguing for and against? What excerpt/quotation best represents this?


Adolf Loos 
  • "passion for smooth and precious surfaces"
  • describing how ornamentation can have the effect of causing objects to go out of style and become obsolete.
  • Loos introduced a sense of "immorality" or ornament describing it as " degenerate", its suppression as necessary for regulating modern society.
  • he believed that it had to be appropriate to the type of material.
Reyner Banham
  • Banham substantiated that Loos's work had on art and architecture of 20th century, but criticized that Loos's essay was not a reasoned argument but succession of fast-spieling double takes and non-sequiturs holding together a precarious argument.
Joseph Rykwert
  • ornamentation provides focal point and energy in space.
  • believe that ornamentation is not only giving the building aesthetic manifestation, but a cumulative evolution of culturally defined meaning.
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