In 1896, after being for three years in the U.S.A., he returned to Vienna and started working as interior designer and critic. (In 1926 Wittgenstein co-designed his own house with Paul Engelmann, a disciple of Loos who was introduced to him by Loos himself ten years before). Ludwig Wittgenstein was also familiar with Loos and greatly admired his work. The son of a stonemason, he studied at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute in Dresden (today the University of Technology) and paid military service in Vienna, where became friend of several avant-garde artists including Arnold Schönberg, Karl Kraus, Max Oppenheimer, Oskar Kokoschka, Peter Altenberg, and Tristan Tzara. He was and remains one of the most important promoters of rationality in architecture and can be considered in all respects the forefather of modern architecture and design. Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect, designer, and critic whose intellectual contribution has been crucial to the advent of the Modern Movement.
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