Main entry:

Colomina, Beatriz.

Title & Author:

Adolf Loos : private spaces / Beatriz Colomina.

Publication:

Barcelona : Editorial Tenov : "la Caixa" Foundation, [2017]
©2017

Description:

283 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition presented at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona December 14, 2017-February 25, 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
Adolf Loos's Objects, As Seen From the Barcelona Design Museum / Pilar Velez -- Adolf Loos, Private Spaces / Pilar Parcerisas -- Lessons of America / Christopher Long -- Modernity, Ethics and Truth / Pilar Parcerisas -- The Rights of the Modern Nerves / Beatriz Colomina -- An Anti-Modern Modern / Christian Kuhn -- INTERIORS PRIVATE -- Constructing, Inhabiting, Using / Pilar Parcerisas -- The "Interior Design Instructor" and His English Models / Eva B. Ottillinger -- PUBLIC -- Two Coffee Houses and A Bar Adolf Loos's Drinks Establishments / Markus Kristan -- Temples of the Commodity / Pilar Parcerisas -- On Adolf Loos and the Doric Column / Juan José Lahuerta.

Summary:

Adolf Loos held that a building should have a soberly discreet exterior, reserving all its riches for its interior. Given that, any real appreciation of the spatial complexity of the work of one of the most misunderstood architects of the twentieth century requires engagement with his interiors, which this book does, brilliantly. In marked contrast to his contemporaries in the Vienna Secession, who designed their spaces down to the smallest detail, Loos presented himself as a "professor of interior design," perfectly willing to adapt to the habits and tastes of his clients, inviting them to embrace their own tastelessness rather than defer to the discernment of an "aesthete" architect. Together with the future occupant, he designed welcoming interiors whose warmth came from the effective use of quality materials and the creation of a flowing continuity articulated by the furnishings. What Loos created thereby was not merely architecture, but a new culture of living.

ISBN:

9788499001906
8499001904

Subject:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
Loos, Adolf 1870-1933
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Exhibitions.
Architektur
Innenarchitektur
Möbel
Interior decoration History 20th century Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Colomina, Beatriz author
Meseu del Disseny de Barcelona, sponsoring body.
Meseu del Disseny de Barcelona, host institution

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301843
Call No.: BIB 248030
Status: Available