ARCH&UD 30 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Adolf Loos, Bernard Rudofsky
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Ornaments have been prevalent in human fashion since the beginning of time but are now being questioned as to whether or not they still have a role in everyday life. Ornament and crime, adolf loos explains why he believes that ornaments no longer have a place with the modern man. Meanwhile, in the book, underneath aesthetics and utility: the. Non transposable fetish of bernard rudofsky, felicity scott describes burr"s prediction of ornaments. While the two men have different views on what the ornaments future role shall be, they both seem to have the same belief that ornaments role evolve to match either the current time or culture or both. According to adolf loos, ornaments can only be used when the person doing so is amoral. For instance, it is perfectly normal for a child or somebody who is from a different culture to desire to decorate themselves in ornaments because accordsing to loos, they simply don"t know any better.