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Raumplan versus Plan Libre : Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, 1919 - 1930
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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ASIN: 0847810003
Release Date: 1993-08-15 |
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Corb and Loos.......2000-01-04
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.
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Great essays, but one less than what I hoped for.......2006-03-26
I was a bit disappointed that this volume did not include "The Poor Little Rich Man" in its selection, but it is otherwise a nice collection of Loos' delightful and insightful essays. In addition to "Ornament and Crime", this book gives you:
Our School of Applied Art
The Christmas Exposition in the Austrian Museum
The Jubilee Exhibition: The Exhibition Buildings
The Silver Court and the Neighboring Pavilion
Men's Fashion
The New Style and the Bronze Industry
Interior Design: Prelude
The Interiors of the Rotunda
Chairs
Glass and China
Luxury Carriages
Plumbers: Baths and Kitchen Ranges
Gentlemen's Hats
Footwear
Shoemakers
Ladies' Fashion
Underwear
Furniture
The Furniture of 1898
Printers
A Review of the Applied Arts I
A Review of the Applied Arts II
The English Schools in the Austria Museum
Pottery
Surplus to Requirements
In Praise of the Present
Culture
Cultural Degeneration
Brief Intermezzo
Beethoven's Ears
Hands Off!
Ornament and Education
Short Hair
Oscar Kokoschka
On Josef Hoffman
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Just album.......2005-01-25
This album at 10.1 x 10.2 inches (25.5 x 25.7 cm) and with 180 pages contains: a few pages of Introduction titled "Adolf Loos: The Architect as Master Builder" and reflecting the book content, 21 projects - each shortly described on a page followed by several good full page photos (totaling in approx. 150 incl. approx. 50 in color), a short list of main projects, and a bibliography. This is a non-technical book without plans, sections, details, etc.
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Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture
Werner Oechslin
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521623464 |
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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.
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Adolf Loos (STP) (Studio Paperback)
Kurt Lustenberger
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Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism
Janet Stewart
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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.
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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."
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Loos-One of the Fathers of Architectural Modernism.......2006-04-06
By no means is Adolf Loos as well known as his younger contemporaries, Le Corbusier, Gropius or Van de Rohe. Very few of his buildings rise to the level of iconic. Nevertheless, Loos through his buildings and writings was one of the founders of architectural Modernism.
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, he was the principle advocate for removing adornments from building fascades. He was also one of the first architects to design homes with flat roofs and descending terraces. Loos also broke away from symetrical floor plans. He made the building shell conform to his use of shape and volume. These are all innovations that helped reshape architecture during the Twentieth Century.
The German Publishing Company Taschen is producing a whole series of brief high quality monographs on the most important architects of the Twentieth Century. Priced at under ten dollars a volume, you will not be able to find a better introduction to Adolf Loos' work. Although many of his buildings are hard to relate to, Loos nevertheless was a very important figure in shaping the world around us. Highly recommended.
Decent Loos reference and .... bonus!.......2005-08-03
This little monograph is a nice little introduction / reference on Loos's work -- brief, an inane and badly translated introduction, good for pulling off a shelf when you need to refresh your memory about a certain Loos project. Just what we expect from these Taschen books.
But what makes it really special is a series of photographs of the recently restored Villa Muller in Prague (project built c.1930). These are credited to Pavel Stecha, according to the list in the back. They are simply phenomenal. They give a vivid, spatial sense of the house and are worth the price of the book by far. Very dramatic.
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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.
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Every designer should read this.......2005-09-19
The best way, somtimes, to talk about a larger condition is to delve into specifics. Colomina uses Loos and Corbusier to draw out comparisons about the use of information.
Considering the amount of architectural monographs being churned out on a daily basis, and the creation of terms such as "information architecture," it's extremely valuable to look at how modern architecture might have started from an alliance between types of publicity and design.
Both Loos and Corbusier come out, biography-wise, as extremely creepy, though shrewd in shaping how their work is percieved by the traces that they leave behind. In Corbusier's case, he leaves an archive stuffed with minutia, an overabundance of information to supplement the built work. Loos, on the other hand, leaves very little, and thus what little remains of his work requires imagination to fill gaps in his story. What a designer can gather from this is to ask the question: how does what we do effect what our work is? Colomina's work functions reflexively as well as she works from "evidence" to create representations of both architects.
It is a compelling argument, passionately written, and not the least boring.
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Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a Viennese architect known for his radical building facades. Author Ralf Bock reveals the sensuality of Loos's interior designs, demonstrating that Loos was not an architect of the "white modern movement," but rather, he fought against it. A careful analysis of Loos's ideology and oeuvre, this book features 30 existing projects in 160 extraordinary full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Philippe Ruault, who has completely rephotographed Loos's works. These new images offer different interpretations of Loos' interiors and bring him back to the center of contemporary architectural debate. The color photographs are supplemented by archival photos from the Loos Archive of the Albertina, Vienna, and a completely new set of project drawings.
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