Only in 1929 was the essay published in German in the Frankfurter Zeitung, as. The essay was then published in 1913 in Les Cahiers d’aujourd’hui in French as Ornement et Crime. The Person Overcom-ing the Ancient Man 1.1 Loos’ early years To breed a visionary like Adolf Loos time has to reach a special historic configuration. 23 Adolf Loos, The Principle of Cladding (1898), in Spoken into the. 5 transposes human developmental scale onto the evolutionary scale ‘as proof of the cultural equivalence between children, women, primitives and criminals. Against the deteriorating architectural scene of imitation and surrogate at the turn of last century in Vienna whereby the true meaning and significance of cladding is already forgotten,Adolf Loos advocated"The Law of Cladding"which is derived from Gottfried Semper's"The Principle of Cladding",yet further articulated for the purpose of down to ground practice.At a time when veneered construction had become the most prevalent one,Loos insisted that the cladding material should only be intended to be itself,in material as well as in form,and not to imitate what lies behind to get a seemingly more superior material status yet counterfeiting in reality.He also stressed that the general task of the true architect is the creation of space,or"effect",also in his words.It is for this reason that cladding is the most important and inventing structure instead becomes the second.The"Law"is thus now a norm to follow in the application of this"Principle",and in this way helping architects and designers back to the principle of cladding. Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the lecture in 1910 at the Akademischer Verband für Literatur und Musik in Vienna. Architecture and Phallocentrism in Richard Payne Knights Theory.
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