works and projects Bock, Ralf 1965- creator Loos, Adolf 1870-1933 text bibliography biography it 2007 1st ed. monographic eng

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302 p. : ill. ; col. ; photo. ; 29 cm. "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analysis and redrawing of the Viennese master's oeuvre, realized by Ralf Bock and together with the previously unpublished and surprising photographic documentation by Philippe Ruault, bring to us a new architect, capable of imagining spaces and constructions that are surprisingly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."--Jacket 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) -- Alfred Kraus Apartment (1905) -- Karntner Bar (1908) -- House on Michaelerplatz (1909-11) -- Steiner House (1910) -- KniZe Tailor Salon (1910-13) -- Armin and Rose Marie Horovitz Apartment (1911) -- Stoessl House (1911-13) -- Horner House (1912) -- Scheu House (1912-13) -- Manz Bookshop (1909-12) -- Rosenfeld House (1917) -- Emil Lowenbach Apartment (1913) -- Bauer Villa (Factory Director's Villa) (1914) -- Anglo-Osterreichische Bank II (1914) -- Duschnitz Villa (1915-16) -- Mandl Villa (1916) -- Strasser Villa (1918-19) -- Settlement House in "Friedensstadt" Lainz (1921) -- Settlement House in Heubergsiedlung Vienna (1921-24) -- Rufer House (1922) -- Spanner Country House (1924) -- Tristan Tzara House (1925-26) -- Moller Villa (1926-27) -- Josephine Baker House (1927) -- Friedrich Boskovits Apartment II (1927) -- Brummel House (1928) -- Muller Villa (1928-30) -- Khuner Country House (1929-30) -- Semi-detached House in Werkbund Settlement (1930-32) -- Mitzi Schnabl House (1931-37) -- Chronological List of Loos' Works -- Ralf Bock ; [translations, Lorenzo Sanguedolce]. Also issued in an Italian ed. Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302). Loos, Adolf 1870-1933 Criticism and interpretation Architecture Austria History 20th century Architecture, Domestic Austria Architecture Europe History 20th century Architecture, Domestic Europe Austria Europe NA1011.5.L6 B63 2021 720.92 9788876246432 8876246436 9788857244242 pucpr 071001 20240122142144.0 eng