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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.
Adolf Loos, "Ornament und Verbrechen" Adolf Loos: Sämtliche Schriften in zwei Bänden – Erster Band, Vienna, 1962. Joseph Rykwert. "Adolf Loos: the new vision in Studio International, 1973. Janet Stewart, Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism, London: Routledge, 2000
1 Adolf Loos. Escritos I 1897-1909; 2 Adolf Loos. Escritos II 1910-1933; 3 Otto Wagner. La arquitectura de nuestro tiempo; 4 Le Corbusier. Acerca del Purismo 1918-1926; 5 Mies van der Rohe. La palabra sin artificio 1922-1968; 6 Bruno Taut. Escritos expresionistas; 7 Frank Lloyd Wright. Autobiografía 1867 [1944] 8 Alvar Aalto. De palabra y por ...
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 ...
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 ...
Loos's immediate and extended relations—the Beck, Hirsch, Turnowsky, and Kraus families—and her friends the Semlers were some of Adolf's first clients. They hired him to remodel apartment interiors in Plzeň and Vienna, and it was there that Adolf first began to open up the "interstitial spaces" between walls to create continuous rooms.
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For Martín Domínguez, the elements to be used will not be as important as the way to use and combine them. He shared many of the theories defended by Adolf Loos and Tony Garnier, presenting in his works that logical rationalism of Loos along with Garnier's deep concern for society and the environment. This was highlighted by technical ...