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Adolf Loos

1870–1933 · Austro-Czech architect and critic · Austria

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Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Fotografie von Otto Mayer.
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Bio

Critiqued historicist ornament and advanced a radical conception of modern domestic architecture.

Key works

  • Looshaus
  • Müller House

THE RETHINK

Adolf Loos helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Adolf Loos changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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