Adolf Loos
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
10 December 1870
Born on the same birth date (10 December 1870): Jadunath Sarkar • Pierre Louÿs
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Born in the same month (December 1870): Charles Bennett (athlete) • Earl Gregg Swem • Edward LeSaint • Francisco S. Carvajal • Ida S. Scudder • Jadunath Sarkar • John Marin • Karl Renner • Pierre Louÿs • Saki • Vítězslav Novák • Walter Benona Sharp