Adolf Loos – Pioneer of Modern Living
Adolf Loos / Pioneer of Modern Living
A series of events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Adolf Loos’ birth: streamed guided tours, debates, and a competition for children, all revealing the fabulous design and the innovative mind of Adolf Loos, a visionary in the field of modern living whose ideas deeply influenced the way we live today.
Streamed tours of Loos's realizations in the Czech Republic, an art competition, debates, as well as professional posts by curator Filip Šenk and Loos' still resonant quotes were presented on an ongoing basis.
The project is followed a parallel project Loos and Pilsen.
Let's explore Adolf Loos
The project began on 18 June 2020 with a live-stream tour of the Winternitz Villa guided by Czech architect Adam Gebrian and broadcast within the Surprising Buildings show on Mall.tv, also part of the online version of the prestigious London Festival of Architecture.
On 23 July 2020, we visited Adolf Loos' interior of the Bauer Chateau in Brno with a Czech architect Lenka Štěpánková.
On 20 August 2020, we broadcast in cooperation with Mall.tv the world premiere of a new episode of Adam Gebrian's show “Surprising Buildings”, entitled Adolf Loos’ Interiors in Pilsen.
On 3 December 2020, we presented the last but iconic building of Adolf Loose Muller's villa, in cooperation with TV Architect, the premiere of the subtitled part of Zdeněk Lukeš's show – Hidden Treasures of Architecture which you can watch here.
Competition: DIY 3D Card of Adolf Loos' Villa
We have are also prepared acreative workshop and a competition in cooperation with Tereza Hradilková / Porigami.com. Original prize – a vase by Pavel Janák from the company Modernista went to Japan.
Winners
Naoya Toriyama, Japan
Paneras Stavros (Πανέρας Σταύρος), Greece
Matveeva Albina Alexandrovna (Альбина Матвеева), Ukraine
About Porigami
The author, who is a graduated architect, managed to combine her interest in architecture and paper work. Tereza Hradilková have made for our project a postcard of Villa Müller and Villa Winternitz. We invite you to create your own postcards according to her design and join our competition , that is intended for adults as well as children and which consists in making a postcard according to your own design.
Tutorials on making 3D cards
About Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos was one of the most influential European architects of the late 19th century and is noted for his literary discourse that foreshadowed the foundations of the entire modernist movement. Loos studied architecture in Liberec and Dresden and was influenced by his three-year stay in the United States (1893-96) where he was impressed by the innovative efficiency of American industrial buildings.
He then lived in Vienna where he wrote many controversial essays, notably 'Ornament and Crime' in which he expounded a lack of ornament in architecture as a sign of spiritual strength.
He developed the Raumplan, a method of arranging interior spaces, exemplified in Villa Müller and Villa Winternitz in Prague.
As well as his private houses he is best known for his projects in Vienna such as the Goldmann & Salatsch building on Michaelerplatz, the Café Museum and the Kärntner (American) Bar.
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