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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture.
This was the style for which Loos strove: a refined and intricate interior with a simple and nonthreatening exterior. [2]: 14 The Steiner house has a stucco façade like most of his other buildings but not without reason. Loos built his buildings with roughcast walls and used the stucco to form a protective skin over the bricks. Loos did not ...
In his book Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, writer Joseph Masheck draws parallels between Loos's mausoleum and the work of later post-modern architects and artists including the brick installations of Carl Andre, the "gray prisms" of sculptor Robert Morris and the sculptures of Tony Smith, the last of which was an influence on I. M. Pei. [1]
Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the lecture in 1910 at the Akademischer Verband für Literatur und Musik in Vienna. The essay was then published in 1913 in Les Cahiers d’aujourd’hui in French as Ornement et Crime .
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The competition failed to produce a design that satisfied them, so in 1909 they gave the commission to Adolf Loos, who had been invited to submit a design but had not done so. The building was constructed by Pittel+Brausewetter , with Ernst Epstein as construction manager. However, although the city had accepted the plans, in 1910 the ...
English: Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. Français : Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architecte autrichien, défenseur du dépouillement intégral dans l’architecture moderne.
Adolf Loos The Rufer House at Schließmanngasse 11 in Vienna , was designed by architect Adolf Loos in 1922 for Josef Rufer and Marie Rufer. [ 1 ] It is considered to be the first example of Raumplan (literally spatial plan ) style.