Adolf Loos - Wikipedia
WEBAdolf 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 was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement.
Spotlight: Adolf Loos | ArchDaily
WEBAdolf Loos (December 10, 1870 – August 23, 1933) was one of the most influential European architects of the late 19th century and is often noted for his literary discourse that foreshadowed the...
Adolf Loos | Modernist, Viennese, Interior Design | Britannica
WEBAdolf Loos (born December 10, 1870, Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died August 23, 1933, Kalksburg, near Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian architect whose planning of private residences strongly influenced European Modernist architects after World War I.
Adolf Loos - 15 Iconic Projects - RTF | Rethinking The Future
WEBAdolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an influential Austrian and Czechoslovakian architect of European Modern architecture and a leading critic in the field of construction and design. Loos was known for his controversial views on the use of ornamental decoration in the architecture and design of buildings.
Adolf Loos and the Beginnings of European Modernism
WEBNov 28, 2021 · The way that Loos’ designs aimed to be timeless and forward-thinking, yet hyper-specific to human needs makes him one of the pioneers of modernism. Even 100 years later, his buildings are often...
Adolf Loos | Adolf Loos
WEBIn 1870, in the city of Brno, one of the most important of Europe’s twentieth-century architects was born: Adolf Loos. He studied in Liberec and also at the Vienna Technical University, yet never completed any of his study programs.
Adolf Loos | Architectuul
WEBAdolf Loos (10 December 1870 - 23 August 1933) was one of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovakian architects of European Modern architecture. Born in 1870 in Bruenn (Brno), Moravia, to an ethnically German family, Loos was nine when his father, a stonemason, died.
Adolf Loos (1870-1933) - Architectural Review
WEBOct 8, 2013 · Collected as ‘Spoken Into The Void’, Loos’s essays culminated in Ornament and Crime (1908) that precipitously stated: ‘the lower the culture, the more apparent the ornament’. He began architecture with his own apartment in 1903, then with a succession of rooms, shopfronts, bars and eventually whole houses (Steiner House, 1910) for ...
Designculture • Adolf Loos
WEBAdolf Loos. Brno, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic), 1870 – Vienna, Austria, 1933. Who’s Who. Published March 2, 2014. Revised March 1, 2017. Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect, designer, and critic whose intellectual contribution has been crucial to the advent of the Modern Movement.
Tuning into the Void: The Aurality of Adolf Loos’s Architecture
WEBClaire Beck Loos, his third wife, published her memoirs, Adolf Loos Privat, in 1936 to help raise funds for her ex-husband’s tombstone. In it, she describes his erratic behavior—his spontaneous marriage proposals to his three wives, his tendency to interject in conversations with an unrelated idea, and his habit of abruptly standing up ...
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