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Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a star in his own time, known throughout Vienna as an outspoken, audacious dandy and moralist who defied the establishment. His work not only represented the beginning of modernism, with its stark, unornamented style, but also revolutionized architecture by introducing the concept of "spatial plan" architecture, which allowed for economizing space by designating rooms’ sizes and heights based on their purposes. Loos also published numerous essays during his lifetime, the most notable of which is the oft-misunderstood "Ornament and Crime." ... Read more

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Corb and Loos
An excellent book! Very well documented with plans, sections, elevations and models. The models are especially informative because they are primarily section models that illustrate the spatial differences between Corb and Loos. The book also dispell the misconception that Corb's houses were white. The original color schemes of the various houses are displayed in the models. A great book for students of theses two giants. ... Read more

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Contemporary architectural theory emphasizes the importance of "tectonics," the term used to articulate the relationship among construction, structure, and architectural expression.Yet, little consideration has been given to the term's origins or historical significance.In this study, Oechslin examines the attempts by early Modern theoreticians of architecture to grapple with the relationship between appearance and essence.He locates the culmination of this search for "truth" in architectural expression in the work of Adolf Loos and the writings of theorists such as Bötticher, Le Corbusier, and Lux. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Remodeling, published by Hanley-Wood, Inc. on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1833 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Deja Loo: a Raleigh N.C., contractor wins over clients on a traditional kitchen remodel, then returns for a contemporary his-and-hers bath awash in Japanese understones.(Before+After)
Author: Hayden Alfano
Publication: Remodeling (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: Hanley-Wood, Inc.
Volume: 19Issue: 10Page: 73(6)

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Adolf Loos war einer der ersten, die Anfang des Jahrhunderts unbedingte Wahrheit in der Architektur forderten. In merkwürdigem Widerspruch dazu scheint zu stehen, daß es derselbe Architekt war, der für den Wettbewerb der Chicago Tribune jene monumentale Säule beisteuerte und im selben Jahr 1922 schmucklose kubische Villen mit Dachgärten entwarf. Was meint Loos mit Wahrheit?Christian Kühns erstmals 1989 erschienene Studie untersucht detailliert am Beispiel von Adolf Loos` berühmtem Haus Müller in Prag (1930) die Arbeits- und Denkweise des Architekten. Ausgehend von einer genauen Analyse des Hauses, diskutiert der Autor unterschiedliche Auffassungen des Wahrheitsbegriffs in der Architektur der frühen Moderne und stellt sie derjenigen von Loos gegenüber. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Architecture Australia, published by Architecture Media on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Landscape, the fabric of architecture: moving between the monumental and the vernacular, FJMT's new complex for Edith Cowan University's Joondalup campus negotiates the ground between landscape and community.
Author: Gevork Hartoonian
Publication: Architecture Australia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Architecture Media
Volume: 93Issue: 1Page: 64(8)

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This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the century. ... Read more

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"An absorbing and quiet book. Absorbing in that it does not follow a single line of thought to its logical conclusion, but instead presents a series of meditations on diverse yet richly interconnected materials. And quiet in that the position of neither Le Corbusier nor Loos is ever actively argued against. They are, rather, studies in their respective habitats, and what we in turn observe is the construction of the look that sees them." -- Michael Archer, Art Monthly

Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media, and that in so doing it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity. Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture -- the mass media -- as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements. This does not mean abandoning the architectural object, the building, but rather looking at it in a different way. The building is understood here in the same way as all the media that frame it, as a mechanism of representation in its own right. With modernity, the site of architectural production literally moved from the street into photographs, films, publications, and exhibitions -- a displacement that presupposes a new sense of space, one defined by images rather than walls. This age of publicity corresponds to a transformation in the status of the private, Colomina argues; modernity is actually the publicity of the private. Modern architecture renegotiates the traditional relationship between public and private in a way that profoundly alters the experience of space. In a fascinating intellectual journey, Colomina tracks this shift through the modern incarnations of the archive, the city, fashion, war, sexuality, advertising, the window, and the museum, finally concentrating on the domestic interior that constructs the modern subject it appears merely to house. ... Read more

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The Vienna Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 provided the occasion for these remarkable essays by the Austrian architect, theorist, and irreverent critic of his own culture, Adolf Loos. ... Read more