Adolf Loos Model of Culture

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Adolf Loos Model of Culture
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Raumplan

• houses are organized about displacements in the
  respective levels of their principal floors,
  elisions that serve not only to create spatial
  movement but also to differentiate one living
  area from another.
• Kenneth Frampton

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• Looss significance as a pioneer depended not
  only on his extraordinary insights as a critic of
  modern culture but also on his formulation of the
  Raumplan as an architectural strategy for
  bourgeois society which, having deprived itself
  of the vernacular, could not claim in exchange
  the culture of Classicism.The typological issue
  posited by Loos was how to combine the propriety
  of Platonic mass with the convenience of
  irregular volume.
• Kenneth Frampton