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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Adolf Loos buildings" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...