The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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.