Editing Adolf Loos (section)

==Early life==

=== Youth ===
Loos was born into a family of artisans on 10 December 1870 in [[Brno]], in the [[Margraviate of Moravia]] region of the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], today the eastern part of the [[Czech Republic]]. His father Adolf Loos was a German [[stonemason]] who died when Loos was nine years old.<ref name="Life and influence2">{{cite web |title=Adolf Loos: Life and influence |url=http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512170143/http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Exhibitionsandloans/AdolfLoos/Lifeandinfluence/LifeAndInfluence.aspx |archive-date=12 May 2013 |access-date=20 June 2012 |publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects}}</ref> His mother, Marie Loos, was a sculptor who later carried on the masonry business after her husband's death. Young Adolf Loos had inherited his father's hearing impairment and was significantly handicapped by it throughout his life, contributing to his solitary character.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Neutra |first=Richard |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2099/792 |title=Recuerdo de Adolf Loos |publisher=Carrer de la ciutat |year=1980 |isbn=978-3-85002-846-2 |pages=9–10 |hdl=2099/792 |language=Spanish |oclc=1030566474}}</ref>

=== Education ===
Loos attended several [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] schools and sought a variety of programs. In 1884, Loos began his studies at the [[Stiftsgymnasium Melk]] for only a few months after failing an exam.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |last=Andrews |first=Brian |year=2010 |title=Ornament and Materiality in the Work of Adolf Loos |url=https://www.acsa-arch.org/files/conferences/annual/2010%20Annual/Section6.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223335/https://www.acsa-arch.org/files/conferences/annual/2010%20Annual/Section6.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2011 |access-date=9 February 2011 |work=Material Making: The Process of Precedent. p.438 |publisher=Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture}}</ref> He then studied mechanics at the Royal and Imperial State Technical College in [[Liberec]], but dropped to pursue building technology. He then returned to mechanics again at State Crafts School in Brünn in 1889, and changed to architecture by studying at [[Dresden University of Technology]] from 1890 to 1893.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=Spotlight: Adolf Loos |url=https://www.archdaily.com/576187/spotlight-adolf-loos |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">Tournikiotis, Panayotis (2002). ''"Adolf Loos"''. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 9–10. {{isbn|9781568983424}}.</ref><ref>"NGV Vienna Art and Design: Adolf Loos". ''www.ngv.vic.gov.au''. Retrieved 2022-10-04.</ref> Loos ultimately did not receive any academic degree due to his sporadic education pursuits, poor academics, and his enrollment in the Austrian military in 1889.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=s.r.o |first=Via Aurea |title=Adolf Loos {{!}} Architects {{!}} Brno Architecture Manual. A Guide to Brno Architecture |url=https://www.bam.brno.cz/en/architect/57-adolf-loos |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=www.bam.brno.cz |language=en}}</ref> 

Loos' diverse educational background provided him with a vast skillset which proved to be useful. He could comprehend masonry and craftsman work and its impact on architecture, prompting recognition by many scholars based on his expertise.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maciuika |first=John V. |date=2000 |title=Adolf Loos and the Aphoristic Style: Rhetorical Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Design Criticism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511864 |journal=Design Issues |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=75–86 |doi=10.1162/074793600750235804 |jstor=1511864 |s2cid=57559630 |issn=0747-9360}}</ref>