Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈloːs]; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect...
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modernist architect Adolf Loos that criticizes ornament in useful objects. Contrary to popular belief that it was composed in 1908, Adolf Loos first gave the...
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editor. He edited publications of the writings of Adolf Loos, Elsie Altmann-Loos, Else Feldmann, and Lina Loos. He also made films about Paul Celan, Elisabeth...
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Hugo Haberfeld (section Hugo Haberfeld and Adolf Loos)
Nazis. Haberfeld entrusted Loos with the design of the apartment furnishings in Alser Strasse in Vienna's ninth district and Loos furnished Haberfeld's apartment...
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Looshaus (category Adolf Loos buildings)
Michaelerplatz 3, between Herrengasse and Kohlmarkt, in Vienna. Designed by Adolf Loos and completed in 1912, it is considered a major building of Viennese Modernism...
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Steiner House (category Adolf Loos buildings)
Vienna, Austria. It is considered one of the major works of architect Adolf Loos. Loos was still starting his career in 1910 when he designed and constructed...
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German drug-control official Adolf Lindenbaum (1904–1941), Polish mathematician Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect Adolf Lorenz (1854–1946), Austrian...
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the title Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait. Loos, Claire Beck (2011). Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait. Los Angeles, CA: DoppelHouse Press. Loos, Claire Beck...
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In 1921 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos completed a plan for a mausoleum for the Austrian Czech art historian Max Dvořák, who had died earlier that year...
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designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, Villa Müller in Prague, designed by Adolf Loos in 1930, and the majority of the city of Zlín, developed by the Bata shoe...
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Schmidt served as witnesses. In 1903, Loos began an affair with 18-year old student Heinz Lang. Lang had hoped Loos would break up with her husband and...
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Villa Müller (category Adolf Loos buildings)
in Plzeň (1930), Adolf Loos The exterior displayed Loos' theory discussed in his 1908 essay, "Ornament and Crime". In the essay, Loos criticized decorated...
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Café Museum (category Adolf Loos buildings)
opened in 1899. The original interior was designed by renowned architect Adolf Loos. The café became a meeting place for Viennese artists. The café is situated...
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the redesign of the street. Several buildings (partially) designed by Adolf Loos, including: Looshaus (one of the most significant buildings of Viennese...
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These included Trakl as well as Rainer Maria Rilke and the architect Adolf Loos." Later, in a period of severe personal depression after World War I,...
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Adolf Loos died in 1933. Under a 1922 will, she was Loos's sole heir, and his estate was released to her in 1938. Adolf Loos, der Mensch [Alfred Loos...
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Nouvelle". Assemblage: 85. Hebly, Arjan (2008). Raumplan Versus Plan Libre: Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. p. 77. ISBN 978-9064506659....
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factory in Berlin by Peter Behrens (1909) The Steiner House in Vienna by Adolf Loos, main façade (1910) Stoclet Palace by Josef Hoffmann, Brussels, (1906–1911)...
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Secession movement in art, the Second Viennese School, the architecture of Adolf Loos, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle. The city...
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Henry Kulka (section Assisting Loos)
architect and ideologue Adolf Loos. He became Loos's assistant in 1919 and by the end of 1927 ran a joint architectural practice with Loos as full collaborating...
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year 1897, with the founding of the Vienna Secession, proved decisive. Adolf Loos, the influential architect, was substantially informed by, and throughout...
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designed by Adolf Loos, completed. Halenbrücke concrete open-spandrel arch bridge over Aare between Bern and Kirchlindach in Switzerland. Adolf Loos' Ornament...
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a development by Peter Barber Architects. Barber cites Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos and JJP Oud as influences on the project, and said that in consultancy...
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Friedell, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anton Kuh, Adolf Loos, Leo Perutz, Robert Musil, Stefan Zweig, Alfred Polgar, Adolf Hitler and Leon Trotsky. In January 1913...
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Garrigue Masaryk Leoš Janáček Sigmund Freud Edmund Husserl Alphonse Mucha Adolf Loos Tomáš Baťa Kurt Gödel Emil Zátopek Milan Kundera Ivan Lendl Notable people...
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design to a search for a design science. The essay "Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos from 1908 is one of the early 'principles' design-theoretical texts. Others...
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significant architectural events and new buildings. January 21 – Architect Adolf Loos delivers the lecture Ornament and Crime in Vienna. April 27 – Futurist...
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the Imperial Household to well-known artists of the early 20th century, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and Otto Wagner, who characterized the domestic architecture...
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slightly different form.[citation needed] In 1910, the Austrian architect Adolf Loos gave a lecture titled "Ornament and Crime" in reaction to the elaborate...
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this surname include: Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect Anita Loos (1888–1981), American screen writer and author Anna Loos (born 1970), German...
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