N el 1908 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos wrote and published a text and nihilistic rather unconventional for its time: Ornament und Verbrechen (Ornament and crime).
In it was clear the explicit rejection of the excessive use of decorative elements in architecture.
In it highlights the necessity to start a serious and final purity of form and function spaces built, giving the boot to the rationalist trend in architecture.
re-reading distance of a century that text, he sees himself not only topical and contemporary, but also and above all, necessary.
rid of "specks" decorative is now highly desirable.
Donate to the constructed, and matter formed in the image of the human imagination, a pure form, essential, dry and minimal, and should be, the essence of architecture, because it requires the deafening noise of a society with its icons media generates only visual perceptual disorder and chaos.
Ornament is crime!
