Editing Adolf Loos (section)

=== United States ===
Post college, Loos traveled to the United States from 1893 to 1896 to learn about outside architecture.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Moss |first=K. |date=2010 |degree=MSc |title=Constructing a Modem Vienna: The Architecture and Cultural Criticism of Adolf Loos |s2cid=190981131 |language=en}}</ref> He started in New York and financially supported himself by working as a mason, a floor-layer, and a dish-washer.<ref name=":42">Tournikiotis, Panayotis (2002). ''"Adolf Loos"''. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 9–10. {{isbn|9781568983424}}.</ref><ref name=":2">Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Adolf Loos, Theory and Works (London: Art Data, 1995), 29.</ref> These jobs allowed Loos to move to the Philadelphia countryside with his uncle Benjamin, where he worked as a watchmaker.<ref name=":2" />  Living on the countryside made Loos admire America's rural culture, but he traveled to New York and Chicago to explore American metropolitan architecture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bock |first=Ralf |title=Adolf Loos: Works and Projects |year=2021 |isbn=9788857244242 |pages=14–15|publisher=Skira }}</ref>

On his first visit to Chicago, Loos was immediately inspired by the new American [[skyscraper]]s and the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in 1893.<ref name=":5">Bototin, Norman & Laing, Christine, The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 The World's Columbian Exposition from Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1992, pg. 20.</ref> Specifically, he was inspired by the architect [[Louis Sullivan]] and the [[Chicago school (architecture)|Chicago School of Architecture]], approving of Sullivan's concept of [[form follows function]] in his essay [[Ornament in Architecture]].<ref name=":5" />

Although Loos left America in 1896, he became involved in Chicago's architectural scene. Inspired by Sullivan, in 1922 Loos submitted a building design for the [[Chicago Tribune]] Tower Competition, where his design proposal followed a [[Doric column]] as the building's top, known as the Column Tower proposal.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-10-03 |title=How Chicago's Tribune Tower Competition Changed Architecture Forever |url=https://www.archdaily.com/880899/how-chicagos-tribune-tower-competition-changed-architecture-forever |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=ArchDaily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dancing Column |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681018/the-dancing-column/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=MIT Press |language=en-US}}</ref> While he did not win, his architecture inspired later [[Postmodern]] architects of the 1980s and '90s.<ref name=":0" />