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Other similarities exist beyond the aesthetics of these white, box-like facades. It is clear that Loos was a source of inspiration for Le Corbusier and he often mentioned Loos's ideas in his own writing. As Le Corbusier wrote, "Loos swept under our feet, it was a Homeric cleansing - exact, philosophical and logical. With it, Loos influenced our architectural destiny.,,86 In 1921 Le Corbusier reprinted Loos's essay "Ornament and Crime" in L 'Esprit Nouveau and thus was very familiar with Loos's argument for removing ornament from objects of everyday use. After attending the 1924 International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, Le Corbusier published L 'Art decorative d'aujourd'hui (The Decorative Arts o/Today). In the book Le Corbusier argues that the applied arts were anachronistic. Their writing illustrates a shared disdain for decorative arts and a reverence for Classicism and rationality in architecture. Despite these substantial similarities, a closer look at their conceptions of architecture's role in the modem age begins to reveal their different theories on architecture.