Hacer… hablar; hablar… tal vez habitar. Apuntes sobre lo dicho y hecho por Adolf Loos (1870-1933)

Abstract

Ornament and Crime and Architecture , the two articles that have undoubtedly helped to spread the ideas and to support the celebrity of the architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933), come from two conferences. Its origin is, therefore, oral nature. And the controversy triggered following them becomes, in his time and for History, in real oracles, whose sense their transcripts, both French and German, partly inevitably distort. Just comparing what was said by the master, and then written and published, with his built work we can restore the original meaning of his thought. This is the hypothesis on which we discoursing. To his words and constructed works it must be added that the architect and journalist's attention, who thus confesses, gives trades and materials that support them, in the way of thinking of Gottfried Semper, as the basis of design. It is therefore in the light of their attendance at the architectural work, and from this to the space of inhabitation, and no from other graphic and photographic documents, as it must be assessed what has been said and written by Loos, if we stick to his own advice. The said is illuminated with what the done. And the fact is authorized by the inhabitation.