Minimal Design, Modernist
The uncultured man, can almost be forgiven for using ornament and decoration because he doesn't know any better.
"Evolution of culture is synomomus with the removal of ornament" Break from the older traditions
Adolf loos was adamant that he would not subside to the argument that ornament and decoration increase the pleasures in life of the cultivated man, would never agree to such a statement.
His architectural style was very minimalistic, but with a complex variation of geometry incorporated into each design, his buildings are based on proportion, the order of the civilized man. In His essay "Ornament and Crime" he attacked the style of the Vienna Secession for its flowering designs.
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