The Looshaus / CHF 64.00
Christopher Long
The Looshaus
101 Seiten mit 147 (136 farbigen) Abbildungen
When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The book, which features new colour photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus' design and construction, the political and social restlessness it reflected, and the building's fundamental role in defining the look of modernism.