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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.
He took as one of his examples the tattooing of the "Papuan" and the intense surface decorations of the objects about him—Loos says that, in the eyes of western culture, the Papuan has not evolved to the moral and civilized circumstances of modern man, who, should he tattoo himself, would either be considered a criminal or a degenerate. [4] [5]
[8] [9] The winners of the biennial Adolf Loos Staatspreis Design are exhibited there. [10] [failed verification] In 2022, Rudolf Klingohr produced a TV documentary "Das Looshaus - Die Rettung eines Baujuwels" (The Looshaus - The Rescue of an Architectural Jewel), which once again summarised the history of the conversion in detail. [11]
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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 ...
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