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Aug 20, 2019 · Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870–August 23, 1933) was a European architect who became more famous for his ideas and writings than for his buildings. He believed that reason should determine the way we build, and he opposed the decorative Art Nouveau movement, or, as it was known in Europe, Jugendstil.
Nov 28, 2021 · Adolf Loos and the Beginnings of European Modernism. Written by Kaley Overstreet. Published on November 28, 2021. Share. Throughout history, architectural styles, have experienced numerous ...
Adolf Loos, “Architecture” (1910), in On Architecture, 78. 7 They all wrote about the architect after his death: Claire in the mid-1930s, Lina in the mid-1940s, and Elsie in the 1970s and 1980s. 8 In a letter to Claire Beck Loos in April 1929, Loos wrote that he admired her “sweet saxophone voice.”.
May 17, 2018 · People. Literature and the Arts. Architecture: Biographies. Adolf Loos. Loos, Adolf. views 1,223,630 updated May 17 2018. Loos, Adolf (1870–1933). Influential Austro-Hungarian architect and polemicist.
Haus Steiner. Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870 in Brno, Moravia – August 8, 1933 in Vienna, Austria) was an early-twentieth century Viennese architect. He believed that what is beautiful must also be useful, and linked beauty and utility by returning an object to its true utilitarian value.
Nov 2, 2016 · Ornament and Crime began as a lecture delivered by Adolf Loos in 1910 in response to a time (the late 19th and early 20th Centuries) and a place (Vienna), in which Art Nouveau was the status...
Nov 11, 2013 · Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary celebrates the centenary of the Looshaus in Vienna and the publication of Adolf Loos’s most provocative theoretical text: Ornament and Crime. Its primary goal is to map significant reactions to Loos both among his closest followers, and his more distant admirers.
