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Essays on Adolf Loos

Author : Christopher Long
Publisher : Kant
ISBN 13 : 9788074372773
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Adolf Loos written by Christopher Long and published by Kant. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ornament and Crime

Author : Adolf Loos
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392983
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Ornament and Crime written by Adolf Loos and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

Spoken Into the Void

Author : Adolf Loos
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620574
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Spoken Into the Void written by Adolf Loos and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vienna Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 provided the occasion for these remarkable essays by the Austrian architect, theorist, and irreverent critic of his own culture, Adolf Loos. The rational underpinnings of his later accusation that "ornament is crime," first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of Viennese sucessionists Joseph Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, Hermann Obrist, and Gustav Klimt, among others.

A Critic Writes

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520923200
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Critic Writes written by Reyner Banham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham's belief in industrial and technological development as the motor of architectural evolution. Banham's interests and passions ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system. Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction.

Adolf Loos

Author : Joseph Masheck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733214
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos written by Joseph Masheck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos' masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.

Adolf Loos

Author : August Sarnitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836544672
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos written by August Sarnitz and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his passion for smooth surfaces, fine lines, and spatial plans, Adolf Loos was a prophet of 20th-century architecture. This essential introduction explores his rejection of ornamental forms and his radical pursuit of stark, bold, and beautiful design.

Villa Muller

Author : Leslie Van Duzer
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981239
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Villa Muller written by Leslie Van Duzer and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of documentaries that explore the history and spirit of the Olympic Games. 'The Olympic Spirit' traces the history of the Olympic Games from their origin in Ancient Greece to their revival in 1896, under the stewardship of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and subsequent growth. 'Greatest Moments of the Olympics' contains a series of two-minute vignettes that set out to capture the spirit of the Olympic Games. Finally, 'Olympic Sports' takes an in-depth look at the history and evolution of individual Olympic sports including sprinting, middle distance running, swimming, diving and cycling and includes interviews with current Olympic champions Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps.

Adolf Loos

Author : Claire Loos
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780983254003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos written by Claire Loos and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively snapshot" vignettes featuring Adolf Loos between 1929-1933 reveal the personality that helped shape modern architecture in Vienna and Czechoslovakia.

Graphic Design as Communication

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136477225
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Design as Communication written by Malcolm Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the point of graphic design? Is it advertising or is it art? What purpose does it serve in our society and culture? Malcolm Barnard explores how meaning and identity are at the core of every graphic design project and argues that the role and function of graphic design is, and always has been, communication. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches including those of Derrida, Saussure, Foucault, and Barthes, and taking examples from advertising, magazines, illustration, website design, comics, greetings cards and packaging, Graphic Design as Communication looks at how graphic design contributes to the formation of social and cultural identities. Malcolm Barnard discusses the ways in which racial/ethnic groups, age groups and gender groups are represented in graphic design, as well as how images and texts communicate with different cultural groups. He also explores how graphic design relates to both European and American modernism, and its relevance to postmodernism and globalisation in the twenty-first century and asks why, when graphic design is such an integral part of our society and culture, it is not acknowledged and understood in the same way that art is.

On Architecture

Author : Adolf Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572410985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book On Architecture written by Adolf Loos and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers the few essays written by the quirky Austrian architect Loos (d. 1933) as well as student notes of his lectures. The essays respond in part to his best-known essay "Ornament and crime", in which he criticized ornament as a waste of labor. Among other topics the essays celebrate classical architecture, critique certain inefficient habits (including eating goulash at 10 am instead of having a big American-style breakfast), argue that architecture is not one of the arts, and consider the relation of Viennese coffee houses to domestic architecture. The volume is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The New Space

Author : Christopher Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218281
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The New Space written by Christopher Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: APPENDIX: Essays by Oskar Strnad, Heinrich Kulka, and Josef Frank -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

Crime and Ornament

Author : Bernie Miller
Publisher : Yyz Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Ornament written by Bernie Miller and published by Yyz Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Loos’s provocative essay "Ornament and Crime" continues to ignite controversy, even outrage. His contentious assumptions have inspired the writers in this anthology who explore ornament in film, visual art, literature, fashion, sports, gay culture, and, of course, architecture. The resulting lively interrogations reinstate ornament as a potent cultural indicator.

Raumplan versus Plan Libre

Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Raumplan versus Plan Libre written by Stanislaus von Moos and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Loos, Ornament and Crime

Author : Juan José Lahuerta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788493923150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book On Loos, Ornament and Crime written by Juan José Lahuerta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Loos, Ornament and Crime"is the most controversial of the essays in the series entitled "Columns of Smoke," in which Professor Juan Jose Lahuerta undertakes an acute and thoroughly documented rereading of modernity, linking the ideas of architecture and ornamentation and exploring the ways these have been treated in print. In the previous volume of this series Lahuerta exploded cliches with his penetrating analysis of Loos's relationship with photography, and here he examines in fine detail the architect's written work, and in particular the texts that engage with architectural and artistic theory and continue the classical tradition of Schinkel, Semper and Riegl an allegiance readily apparent in Loos's architecture. Lahuerta also discusses other articles in which Loos confronted his fellow architects over issuesfar removed from their shared profession, and shows us with tellingly insightful examples how 'Ornament and Crime', the founding essay of modernity that established "disornamentation" as the signal feature of twentieth-century architecture and culture, belongs to this second category. The "ornament" that Loos criminalizes, in language charged with the vocabulary of criminal anthropology and bioevolutionism of Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso, has less to do with the decoration of buildings than with the tattoos, beads and feathers of 'primitives' and "degenerates" women, Papuans, artists and criminals. Lahuerta traces Loos's adoption of pseudo-scientific beliefs that shaped the culture of the early twentieth century, and in so doing dismantles the historical value accorded to his famous text, which in this reading takes on a deeply disturbing significance. "

Why a Man Should be Well-dressed

Author : Adolf Loos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783993000400
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Why a Man Should be Well-dressed written by Adolf Loos and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Adolf Loos

Author : Claire Beck Loos
Publisher : Doppelhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 9780997003482
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Private Adolf Loos written by Claire Beck Loos and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos, born 150 years ago.

Adolf Loos: Works and Projects

Author :
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9788857244242
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos: Works and Projects written by and published by Skira. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have monograph on one of modern architecture's most influential figures, long a rarity and now available in an expanded and updated edition Viennese architect Adolf Loos was influential among his fellow early modernists not only for his radical designs but for his controversial ideology and famously militant opposition to ornament. Loos approached architecture from a primarily utilitarian perspective: he believed that interiors should be designed according to function, taking full advantage of the size and space of a building. In this definitive monograph, a true labor of love, architect Ralf Bock seeks to reveal the sensuality of Loos' interior designs, focusing on his sincere belief in the evolution of tradition. The book explores 30 existing projects from Loos' oeuvre, documented in 160 full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Phillippe Ruault. Along with materials from the Loos archive at the Albertina Museum Vienna, these photographs and Bock's commentary provide a new interpretation of Loos' work and encourage the reintroduction of his ideology into the contemporary architectural conversation. Profiles of Loos' original clients and interviews with people who currently inhabit his designs round out this unique publication. Adolf Loos(1870-1933) was a radical figure in his time: his critique of the Vienna Secession and advocacy for utilitarian design greatly influenced the less ornamental approaches to architecture among subsequent modernist designers. He studied briefly at Dresden University of Technology and delivered his famous lecture "Ornament and Crime" at the Academic Association for Literature and Music in 1910. His most recognizable building is the multipurpose Looshaus at Michaelerplatz in Vienna, characterized by the numerous window boxes on the building's façade.