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Modernist pioneers Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos are very similar on paper. Born only a few days apart in 1870, only a few miles apart in what was then Moravia (the Czech Republic now), the two ...
This glamorous home was designed by Adolf Loos for Dadaist co-founder Tristan Tzara The building the home is located in was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Adolf Loos for Dadaist cofounder ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Architects,” wrote Adolf Loos, “are there to get to the bottom of life, to think through people’s needs ...
From the outside, the early-20th-century buildings of architectural visionaries Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann don’t look drastically different from one another: smooth white planes and crisp ...
Choi’s notes spoke of the architect Adolf Loos’s protominimalist essay “Ornament and Crime,” in which he apparently asserted that the imposition of decoration that must inevitably become ...