A Critical Look at Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime with Dr. Jennifer Salahub

Dr. Jennifer Salahub presents her perspective on the contentious essay by Adof Loos entitled "Ornament and Crime" in this virtual lecture.

Dr. Salahub is Professor Emerita of Art, Craft, and Design History at the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) and sits on the Board of the Alberta Craft Council. Her interest in textiles and craft is long standing, reflecting her professional and personal life. She continues to be fascinated by the unexplored (neglected and lost) early history of craft and craft education in Alberta. In other words, she sees the world through “craft-coloured” glasses. Most recently she published “‘A Lot of Heifer-Dust’: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art” in Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s (2022).

Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect active in the early 1900’s in Vienna whose fierce opinions about ornament influenced the work of architects, designers and makers of his era as well as the development of Modernism. Loos believed that the use of ornament on objects and buildings belied degenerate, criminal tendencies and caused ‘…damage and devastation…’ to aesthetic development.

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