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Both men were the sons of stonemasons, and both belonged to the generation of European architects that emerged around the turn of the century, entering into the profession without having completed their formal university education. €29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9783422063471 Adolf Loos and Auguste Perret were born only a few years apart—Loos in 1870, Perret in 1874. Ralf Bock Adolf Loos: Works and Projects Milan: Skira, 2007 302 pp., 462 color and b/w, illus. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians University of California Press Despite his broad philosophical view, Perret was first and foremost a constructeur: especially in his later years, he became increasingly It is tempting to suggest that Perret was the Parisian Loos—or that Loos was the Viennese Perret—but, in fact, the comparison masks salient and important differences—differences that reach into the core of what each architect believed about the meanings and methods of building. And both retained a fealty to classicism, an ideological position that, in the years after World War I, would distance them from the discourses then shaping modern architecture. Both also relied on new structural technologies—in particular, the concrete frame—in the realization of their key buildings. Adolf Loos: Works and Projects Auguste Perret, die Architektur-debatte und die "Konservative Revolution" in Frankreich 1900–1930 Adolf Loos: Works and Projects Auguste Perret, die Architektur-debatte und die "Konservative.