VARIATIONS ON A NOTE BY LOOS

摘要

Now what's that? A false note has crept into this peace. A pointless incongruity. Among the peasants' houses - not built by them, but by God - a villa has sprung up. The work of a good or a bad architect? I don't know. All I know is that the peace and quiet and beauty have already gone. (Adolf Loos, Architecture, 1910)rnAnd they won't be coming back. I mean, what's done is done, especially in architecture, which follows history like a shadow; and if history dissolves into a sort of everlasting present, it cannot help vanishing in its turn and losing every cause-effect connection between form and function.