Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

Louis and did odd jobs in New York.  
Gravagnuolo Benedetto (1995).  204.

In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture. He was influential in European Modern architecture and in his essay Ornament and Crime he abandoned the aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession.