![]() ![]() With changing interests, Loos attended multiple colleges also due to his poor academics and his different desires, which proved to be useful by providing him a diverse skillset for architecture. Loos had three tumultuous marriages that all ended in divorce and was convicted as a pedophile in 1928. His lack of hearing contributed to his solitary personality. Loos later presented with his father's hearing impairment and other health-related issues. His almost deaf father, a stonemason, died when he was 9 and played a role in Loos' interest in arts and crafts. Loos was born in Brno to a family of sculptors and stonemasons. ![]() His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism. He was an inspiration to modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos ( German pronunciation: 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture.
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