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 ...

In the early 20th century, Czech architect Adolf Loos—known for Vienna’s Goldman & Salatsch building and Prague’s Villa Müller—designed several homes for members of the wealthy Jewish community in the ...

Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, the two most important architects in turn-of-the-century Vienna, were born five days apart in 1870, a few dozen miles from each other in Moravia, then part of the Austro ...

Adolf Loos is now celebrated as an early critic of ornament and as a prophet of modernity. But he is rarely recognized for his equally innovative lighting layouts. Like his later inclusion of the ...

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 geometric ...

Ahead of an RIBA exhibition on Adolf Loos, Jay Merrick explores the peculiarities of the man behind the ‘Raumplan’ and the essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ Learning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech Lands, ...

WHAT MATTERS more—how a room looks on the outside or how it makes you feel on the inside? That is the question at the heart of a new design exhibition, “Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, ...

Among the most significant are the famous Looshaus (1910-1911) on Michaelerplatz in Vienna and the Parisian villas for Tristan Tzara (1925-1926) and Josephine Baker (1927, never built). However, the ...

For much of the previous century, ornamentation went into hiding. Modernist architects purged their buildings of naturalistic flourishes, and designers pruned all references to foliage from their ...

BAKER Old men designing things for me is nothing new; that ballet by Le Corbusier, stage sets by Cocteau and Covarrubias, Calder’s wire sculptures and of course the decoupage mural that takes up an ...