Adolf Loos Works And Projects

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Skira
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8857244245

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Adolf Loos: Works and Projects by Anonim Pdf

The must-have monograph on one of modern architecture's most influential figures, long a rarity and now available in an expanded and updated edition Viennese architect Adolf Loos was influential among his fellow early modernists not only for his radical designs but for his controversial ideology and famously militant opposition to ornament. Loos approached architecture from a primarily utilitarian perspective: he believed that interiors should be designed according to function, taking full advantage of the size and space of a building. In this definitive monograph, a true labor of love, architect Ralf Bock seeks to reveal the sensuality of Loos' interior designs, focusing on his sincere belief in the evolution of tradition. The book explores 30 existing projects from Loos' oeuvre, documented in 160 full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Phillippe Ruault. Along with materials from the Loos archive at the Albertina Museum Vienna, these photographs and Bock's commentary provide a new interpretation of Loos' work and encourage the reintroduction of his ideology into the contemporary architectural conversation. Profiles of Loos' original clients and interviews with people who currently inhabit his designs round out this unique publication. Adolf Loos(1870-1933) was a radical figure in his time: his critique of the Vienna Secession and advocacy for utilitarian design greatly influenced the less ornamental approaches to architecture among subsequent modernist designers. He studied briefly at Dresden University of Technology and delivered his famous lecture "Ornament and Crime" at the Academic Association for Literature and Music in 1910. His most recognizable building is the multipurpose Looshaus at Michaelerplatz in Vienna, characterized by the numerous window boxes on the building's façade.

Author : Ralf Bock,Adolf Loos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architects
ISBN : 8876246436

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Adolf Loos by Ralf Bock,Adolf Loos Pdf

In this volume, Ralf Bock reveals for the first time the sensuality of Loos' interior designs, demonstrating that Loos was not an architect of the "white modern movement" but rather fought against it as he saw the work of purism move in the opposite direction of what he had envisioned. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy. He advocated the evolution of tradition and utility, and not revolution and the permanent invention of formal design.

Author : Leslie Van Duzer,Kent Kleinman,Adolf Loos
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933
ISBN : 1568981236

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Villa Muller by Leslie Van Duzer,Kent Kleinman,Adolf Loos Pdf

A collection of documentaries that explore the history and spirit of the Olympic Games. 'The Olympic Spirit' traces the history of the Olympic Games from their origin in Ancient Greece to their revival in 1896, under the stewardship of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and subsequent growth. 'Greatest Moments of the Olympics' contains a series of two-minute vignettes that set out to capture the spirit of the Olympic Games. Finally, 'Olympic Sports' takes an in-depth look at the history and evolution of individual Olympic sports including sprinting, middle distance running, swimming, diving and cycling and includes interviews with current Olympic champions Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps.

Author : Adolf Loos
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780141392981

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Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos Pdf

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

Author : Stanislaus von Moos,Johan van de Beek,Arjan Hebly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:455868161

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Raumplan versus Plan Libre by Stanislaus von Moos,Johan van de Beek,Arjan Hebly Pdf

Author : Beatriz Colomina
Publisher : Tenov Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 8499001904

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Adolf Loos by Beatriz Colomina Pdf

Adolf Loos held that a building should have a soberly discreet exterior, reserving all its riches for its interior. Given that, any real appreciation of the spatial complexity of the work of one of the most misunderstood architects of the twentieth century requires engagement with his interiors, which this book does, brilliantly. In marked contrast to his contemporaries in the Vienna Secession, who designed their spaces down to the smallest detail, Loos presented himself as a "professor of interior design," perfectly willing to adapt to the habits and tastes of his clients, inviting them to embrace their own tastelessness rather than defer to the discernment of an "aesthete" architect. Together with the future occupant, he designed welcoming interiors whose warmth came from the effective use of quality materials and the creation of a flowing continuity articulated by the furnishings. What Loos created thereby was not merely architecture, but a new culture of living.

Author : August Sarnitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3836544679

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Adolf Loos by August Sarnitz Pdf

With his passion for smooth surfaces, fine lines, and spatial plans, Adolf Loos was a prophet of 20th-century architecture. This essential introduction explores his rejection of ornamental forms and his radical pursuit of stark, bold, and beautiful design.

Author : Benedetto Gravagnuolo,Rizzoli
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847808955

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Adolf Loos by Benedetto Gravagnuolo,Rizzoli Pdf

Author : Albert Hill,Matt Gibberd
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714874167

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Ornament is Crime by Albert Hill,Matt Gibberd Pdf

An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration and a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture. The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions, and can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century. This book is a visual manifesto and a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1134679869

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Adolf Loos by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire Beck Loos
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0997003480

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The Private Adolf Loos by Claire Beck Loos Pdf

Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos, born 150 years ago.

Author : Christopher Alan Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Modern movement (Architecture)
ISBN : 0300174535

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The Looshaus by Christopher Alan Long Pdf

A celebration of the centennial of Vienna's Looshaus--one of modernism's earliest and most controversial buildings When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The heated debate that ensued among critics and the public set the project apart, distinguishing it as one of the most important and contentious buildings of the early 20th century. In celebration of the Looshaus's centennial year, Christopher Long, a leading authority on Viennese architectural history, brings to light extensive new research and careful analysis that dispel long-held myths about Loos, his building, and its critical reception. The book, which features new color photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus's design and construction, the political and social restlessness it reflected, and the building's fundamental role in defining the look of modernism.

Author : Claire Loos
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0983254001

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Adolf Loos by Claire Loos Pdf

Lively snapshot" vignettes featuring Adolf Loos between 1929-1933 reveal the personality that helped shape modern architecture in Vienna and Czechoslovakia.

Author : Juan José Lahuerta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 849392315X

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On Loos, Ornament and Crime by Juan José Lahuerta Pdf

"On Loos, Ornament and Crime"is the most controversial of the essays in the series entitled "Columns of Smoke," in which Professor Juan Jose Lahuerta undertakes an acute and thoroughly documented rereading of modernity, linking the ideas of architecture and ornamentation and exploring the ways these have been treated in print. In the previous volume of this series Lahuerta exploded cliches with his penetrating analysis of Loos's relationship with photography, and here he examines in fine detail the architect's written work, and in particular the texts that engage with architectural and artistic theory and continue the classical tradition of Schinkel, Semper and Riegl an allegiance readily apparent in Loos's architecture. Lahuerta also discusses other articles in which Loos confronted his fellow architects over issuesfar removed from their shared profession, and shows us with tellingly insightful examples how 'Ornament and Crime', the founding essay of modernity that established "disornamentation" as the signal feature of twentieth-century architecture and culture, belongs to this second category. The "ornament" that Loos criminalizes, in language charged with the vocabulary of criminal anthropology and bioevolutionism of Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso, has less to do with the decoration of buildings than with the tattoos, beads and feathers of 'primitives' and "degenerates" women, Papuans, artists and criminals. Lahuerta traces Loos's adoption of pseudo-scientific beliefs that shaped the culture of the early twentieth century, and in so doing dismantles the historical value accorded to his famous text, which in this reading takes on a deeply disturbing significance. "

Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0312097425

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Architecture by Vincent Scully Pdf

Scully is a pioneer of 20th century architecture. This volume is the grand sum of his career. It is not only the history of great edifices, but also a book that explores the unique dialogue between human beings and their buildings and the natural world. 500 color/bandw photos.