Tag: Ornament and Crime

• What Comes After Form? (2)

  

  If Form is not Design’s paradigm anymore, what comes next? If you’d asked art critic Hal Foster around the turn of the Millenium, he would probably answer Design itself succeeded Form. In 2000, Foster published his influential essay “Design and Crime,” which echoed Adolf Loos’ “Ornament and Crime.” Loos’ text was a violent, often racist…

  Mário Moura

  January 30, 2022

  Criticism, Design, Design History, Formalism, politics of design

  Adolf Loos, Design and Crime, Hal Foster, Ornament and Crime