Decoration Deserves to Be Celebrated for What It Is, Rather Than Dismissed for What It Isn?t
Beginning with the moral indignation expressed in Adolf Loos?s 1910 lecture ?Ornament and Crime? and Le Corbusier?s 1925 The Decorative Art of Today, decoration has been attacked from every possible angle. Driven by the heroic male architect, Modernist dictates of good design?functionalism, truth to materials, purity of form?quickly took over and continue to be the dominant ideology today in the way architecture and interiors are taught and practiced. If Modern architecture was rational, masculine, and structural, then decoration was considered emotional, feminine, and shallow. Or, according to Loos, it was flat-out degenerate.
Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff
Beginning with the moral indignation expressed in Adolf Loos?s 1910 lecture ?Ornament and Crime? and Le Corbusier?s 1925 The Decorative Art of Today, decoration has been attacked from every possible angle. Driven by the heroic male architect, Modernist dictates of good design?functionalism, truth to materials, purity of form?quickly took over and continue to be the dominant ideology today in the way architecture and interiors are taught and practiced. If Modern architecture was rational, masculine, and structural, then decoration was considered emotional, feminine, and shallow. Or, according to Loos, it was flat-out degenerate. Read more »
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Courtesy of Sasha Bikoff
Beginning with the moral indignation expressed in Adolf Loos?s 1910 lecture ?Ornament and Crime? and Le Corbusier?s 1925 The Decorative Art of Today, decoration has been attacked from every possible angle. Driven by the heroic male architect, Modernist dictates of good design?functionalism, truth to materials, purity of form?quickly took over and continue to be the dominant ideology today in the way architecture and interiors are taught and practiced. If Modern architecture was rational, masculine, and structural, then decoration was considered emotional, feminine, and shallow. Or, according to Loos, it was flat-out degenerate. Read more »
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