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"Ornament and Crime"

Essay by Adolf Loos He hated ornamentation Inspired by Louis Sullivan's idea of form follows function Compared ornamentation to tattoos and graffiti and sees it as degenerative Ornamentation is only okay when it has historical purposes Richness comes from materials like polished wood and brass

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs - 1961 - argued that Corbusian planning and American urban renewal had self-righteously ignored the actual conditions of cities and how destructive their plans were

International Style

Modern architecture (capital M) promoted an image of simplicity and industrial production austere and theoretically rigorous

Brutalism

concrete (or brut) used in a raw, powerful, and mean way

Entartete Kunst

degenerate art

Art Deco and Streamline Moderne

designs that created a sense of modernity, sleekness, and elegance through stylish and exuberant decorative schemes, as opposed to the more austere and theoretically rigorous designs of radical European Modernism (i.e. the International Style) While Art Deco frequently uses stripped-down historical or exotic motifs, it reinterprets them though a stylized and comprehensive geometry that had its roots in Expressionism, Art Nouveau

Usonian

house type developed by Wright in the late 30's took many of his Prairie School ideas, simplified them and added technical advances to create a less expensive, but pleasant and well-designed home

Siedlungen

public housing projects, particularly in Germany

bungalows

small, informal houses


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