Essays on Adolf Loos / Christopher Long

Main entry:

Long, Christopher (Christopher Alan), 1957- author.

Title & Author:

Essays on Adolf Loos / Christopher Long

Publication:

Prague : KANT 2019.

Description:

165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Becoming Loos -- Part I : the lessons of America -- Part II : the strategy of sorting -- The origins and meanings of "ornament and crime" -- Loos and the Biedermeier Revival in Vienna -- Trotzdem -- A private portrait -- "Ich warne sie vor Josef Hoffmann!"

Summary:

In this book of essays, noted architectural historian Christopher Long examines some of the many influences that shaped the work of the great architect Adolf Loos. Long's finely tuned essays are exploratory journeys and brief excursions into Loos's rich and complex intellectual world. Drawing from his detailed study of historical sources, Long presents new findings and sets the record straight, correcting errors and assumptions that have long been accepted as fact. He is deeply interested in Loos as an architect, but he is even more drawn to his profound and unique mind. Loos, as Long writes, saw that the problem of modernism was not the problem of style, but the problem of understanding how the world was changing.

ISBN:

9788074372773
8074372774

Subject:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Criticism and interpretation.
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933
Architects Austria Biography.
Modern movement (Architecture) Austria Vienna.
Architecture Austria Vienna History.
Architectes Autriche Biographies.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Autriche Vienne.
Architecture Autriche Vienne Histoire.
Architects
Architecture
Modern movement (Architecture)
Austria
Austria Vienna

Form/genre:

Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306288
Call No.: BIB 251910
Status: Available

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