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ADOLF LOOSORNAMENT IS CRIME.
BIRTH, EDUCATION & EARLY INFLUENCES
1870 Born in the Czech Republic to German parents, a sculptor and stonemason.1880 - 1893 Attends series of Austrian and Czech technical colleges, including architecture at Dresden Technical University.1893 - 1896 Travels and works as a mason and floor-layer in the U.S., where he becomes enamored with the efficiency of American architecture. In particular, he comes to admire the work of Louis Sullivan, whose aesthetic was based on the premise that form should follow function.
1897 First solo design at Ebenstein Couturier, beginning of theoretical and critical activity.
Louis Sullivan 1896Prudential Building, Buffalo NY
VIENNESE CONTEXT: THE SECESSION
Joseph Maria Olbrich 1897Secession Haus, Vienna
Gustav Klimt 1907 “Adele Bloch-Bauer's Portrait”
Otto Wagner 1899 Majolica Haus, Vienna
ORNAMENT AND CRIME
. “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.”
Josiah McElheny 2002
“Adolf Loos’ Ornament and Crime”
STYLE: FURNISHINGS
Turnovsky chair 1898
Tripod stool 1905
Café Capua chair 1913
STYLE: FURNISHINGS
Schmidt cabinet 1901
Hoffstäter Sideboard 1903
Löwenbach toilet table 1913
STYLE: FURNISHINGS
Turnovsky folding table 1898
Wall clock 1920
Hoffstäter walnut side tables 1910
Woka lamp 1910
CAFÉ MUSEUM: CAFÉ NIHILISM?
Café Museum 1899
Chair for Café Museum 1899
LOOSHAUS: FURTHER SCANDAL!EMPEROR ENRAGED!
Michaelerhaus/ Looshaus/ The Goldman & Salatsch Building 1909-1911
EMPEROR ENRAGED!
RAUMPLAN:
Steiner House, Vienna 1910
CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOWER
Loos’ entry for Chicago Tribune competition, 1920
The winning design, by Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells
VILLA MÜLLER: RAUMPLAN REALIZED
Villa Müller, Prague 1930
LOOS CHAISE, 1930
Dining room, Villa Müller
Prague, 1930
1870-1933
references:
Adolf Loos Study and Documentation Center, Müller Villa homepage. http://www.mullerovavila.cz/default-av.html. Accessed 1.29.2007.
Fiell, Charlotte & Peter. 1000 Chairs. Taschen America Llc., New York. 1998.
Galinsky, Villa Müller, Prague by Adolf Loos. http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/villamueller/index.htm. Accessed 1.29.2007.
Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays, ed. Adolf Opel, trans. Michael Mitchell. Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press. 1998.
Oechslin, W. Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture. Trans. Lynette Widder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002.
Modernista, Adolf Loos. http://www.modernista.cz/english/ma_loos.html. Accessed 1.29.2007.
Wise, Michael Z. “From Modernism to Communism and Back: An Adolf Loos masterpiece reopens in Prague”. The New York Times, 1.4.2001.
ADOLF LOOS: ORNAMENT IS CRIME.
1870 Born in the Czech Republic to German parents, a sculptor and stonemason.
1880-90 Attended a series of technical colleges in Austria and the Czech Republic.
1892-93 Studied architecture at Dresden Technical University.
1893-96 Traveled and studied Chicago, St Louis, Philadelphia, New York, London and Paris before returning to Vienna.
1897 First solo design at Ebenstein couturierie, beginning of theoretical and critical activity.
1898 Café Museum in Vienna; referred to as “Café Nihilism” by critics.
1908 Published "Ornament and Crime," a legendary diatribe against adornment in design.
1910 Looshaus, Vienna; Goldmann & Salatsch department store in stark modern style built across the street from the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna; great scandal, Austrian emperor enraged.
1910 Steiner House, Vienna; Raumplan concept of terraced rooms first employed.
1922 Notorious submission to Chicago Tribune contest; his proposed tower is a giant Doric column.
1930 Villa Müller, Prague, 1930; Loos considered this the final realization of his anti-ornamental aesthetic and Raumplan
1933 Died at the Kalkoburg Sanatorium near Vienna.
2001 Villa Müller, painstakingly restored, opens to the public as a museum dedicated to the life and work of Adolf Loos.