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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.
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. 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
The book traces two main strains, one from critical theory introduced by The Frankfurt School and philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and the other modern architecture originally put forth in Frankfurt by work of architects such as Adolf Loos, Ernst May, Hannes Meyer and historians such as Sigfried ...
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' method of design was also in transition, making the timing of the project appropriate. Soon, the architect Karel Lhota set František Müller up with Loos to design the villa. Lhota also contributed to the design due to Loos' poor health. After the building was completed, Loos celebrated his 60th birthday there with a few friends.
The essay "Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos from 1908 is one of the early 'principles' design-theoretical texts. Others include Le Corbusier 's Vers une architecture (1923), [ 1 ] and Victor Papanek 's Design for the real world (1972).
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]
The book is edited by Sarah Whiting, the professor of architecture at Harvard University, and was published by Princeton University Press. [1] In it, Eisenman focuses on three figures to explain the quality of lateness: [clarification needed] Adolf Loos, Aldo Rossi and John Hejduk, each selected from a period of architecture in the 20th century ...