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...Hoffmann and Loos were reversed. Hoffmann seemed to lack a coherent, full-bodied vision: his designs were never more than the sum of their odd and luscious details. His best buildings, like the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904-08), stick rather intently to a naked neoclassicism. His supposed apotheosis, the Palais Stoclet (1905-11), is handsome in elevation but ponderously classical in plan and, in all, fussy and overrich. Loos used lavish materials too, but with a redeeming simplicity. He was a hard-liner about tarting up facades: "Ornament equals crime," he wrote. And though Loos' polemical celebration of yeoman-like unoriginality...
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