| Description |
302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Biography -- Written work -- Shops, cafés and bars -- Apartments -- Villas with gardens -- Settlements -- Works. Café Museum, 1899 ; Villa Karma, 1903-06, 1909-12 ; Adolf Loos apartment, 1903 ; Karntner bar, 1908 ; House on Michaelerplatz, 1909-11 ; Steiner house, 1910 ; Knize tailor salon, 1910-13 ; Friedrich Boskovits apartment I, 1910 ; Stoessl house, 1912 ; Scheu house, 1912-13 ; Manz bookshop, 1909-12 ; Rosenfeld house, 1917 ; Friedrich Boskovitz apartment II, 1913 ; Anglo-Osterreichische bank II, 1914 ; Duschnitz villa, 1915-16 ; Mandl Villa, 1916 ; Bauer villa, 1918 ' Strasser villa, 1918-19 ; Settlement house in Friedensstadt Lainz, 1921 ; Rufer house, 1922 ; Spanner country house, 1924 ; Tristan Tzara house, 1925-26 ; Moller villa, 1926-27 ; Josephine Baker house, 1927 ; Brummel house, 1928 ; Muller villa, 1928-30 ; Semi-detached house in Werkbund settlement, 1930-32 ; Mitzi Schnabel house, 1931-37 |
| Summary |
"A new volume dedicated to the constructed works of Adolf Loos represents an important and significant challenge, largely because it draws from a vast body of literature throughout the decades of the 20th century." "The work of excavation, analysis and redrawing of the Viennese master's oeuvre, realized by Ralf Bock and together with the previously unpublished and surprising photographic documentation by Philippe Ruault, bring to us a new architect, capable of imagining spaces and constructions that are surprisingly rich and dense. Adolf Loos' work represents his obsession with architectural emptiness and its physical and symbolic value; he created small fragments of architecture that would become premonitions of the future." "The decorative and material richness of the interiors of his villas and public spaces, the sophisticated role of urban setting and landscaping he gave each of his works, the meticulous attention to details conceived to strengthen the value of the human scale, the only true rule of his planned space, and the stereometric quality of the geometries and of the volumes, always rigorously organized, make Loos one of the most contemporary and vital masters of the present day. This book, with an analysis of the works planned by Loos, with original sources and recent photographic reproductions, offers a new and different way of entering into contact with this world and of transforming it into an instrument for understanding and planning."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Also issued in an Italian ed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) |
| Subject |
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
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Architecture -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Austria -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Domestic -- Austria.
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Architecture, Domestic -- Europe.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Austria.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
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| LC no. |
2007490601 |
| ISBN |
8876246436 |
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9788876246432 |
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