Editing Adolf Loos (section)

=== 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>