Main entry:

Bock, Ralf, 1965-

Title & Author:

Adolf Loos : works and projects / Ralf Bock.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2007.

Description:

302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Also issued in an Italian ed.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302).
Introduction -- Biography -- 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 ; Karntner bar, 1908 ; House on Michaelerplatz, 1909-11 ; Steiner house, 1910 ; Knize tailor salon, 1910-13 ; Friedrich Boskovits apartment I, 1910 ; Stoessl house, 1912 ; Scheu house, 1912-13 ; Manz bookshop, 1909-12 ; Rosenfeld house, 1917 ; Friedrich Boskovitz apartment II, 1913 ; Anglo-Osterreichische bank II, 1914 ; Duschnitz villa, 1915-16 ; Mandl Villa, 1916 ; Bauer villa, 1918 ' Strasser villa, 1918-19 ; Settlement house in Friedensstadt Lainz, 1921 ; Rufer house, 1922 ; Spanner country house, 1924 ; Tristan Tzara house, 1925-26 ; Moller villa, 1926-27 ; Josephine Baker house, 1927 ; Brummel house, 1928 ; Muller villa, 1928-30 ; Semi-detached house in Werkbund settlement, 1930-32 ; Mitzi Schnabel house, 1931-37.

Summary:

"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analysis and redrawing of the Viennese master's oeuvre, realized by Ralf Bock and together with the previously unpublished and surprising photographic documentation by Philippe Ruault, bring to us a new architect, capable of imagining spaces and constructions that are surprisingly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

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
TOC

ISBN:

9788876246432
8876246436

Subject:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Criticism and interpretation.
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933
Architecture Austria 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic Austria.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic Europe.
Architecture Autriche 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Austria
Europe

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254192
Call No.: BIB 184063
Status: Available