Goldman & Salatsch Building. Image © Wikimedia user Thomas Ledl licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870 – August 23, 1933) was one of the most influential European architects of the late 19th century and is often noted for his literary discourse that foreshadowed the...
People interpreted the simple building he designed for tailors Goldman & Salatsch, located right in front of the Imperial Palace, as a deliberate provocation. But Loos considered the home first and foremost a refuge meant to protect the privacy of the people living there. This principle led him...
Loos was one of the first modern architects to use mirrors to expand interior spaces. The interior entry to the 1910 Goldman & Salatsch Building, often called theLooshaus, is made into a surreal, endless foyer with two opposing mirrors. The construction of Looshaus created quite a scandal for...
The following year Adolf Loos hoped to realize his ideas by building the new head office of gentlemen's tailors Goldman & Salatsch. By July 1910 the main façade of the "Loos house" was smooth, white and bereft of adornment, to the horror of the Viennese public. An injunction caused bu...
10.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 Czech city of Pilsen. 11.Russell's only other notable film was "Gentlemen Prefer Blo...
He needed an architect with the necessary accreditation to sign the submitted drawings for his first major work, a commercial and residential building for the Goldman & Salatsch tailor firm on Mi- chaelerplatz in central Vienna. The building – the Looshaus, as it is now known – was larger...
Loos, Adolf: Goldman and Salatsch BuildingThe Goldman and Salatsch Building, Vienna; designed by Adolf Loos. 2 of 2 Loos, Adolf: Villa MüllerVilla Müller, Prague; designed by Adolf Loos. Educated in Dresden, Germany, Loos practiced in Vienna, although he spent extended periods in the Unite...
Loos, Adolf: Goldman and Salatsch BuildingThe Goldman and Salatsch Building, Vienna; designed by Adolf Loos. 2 of 2 Loos, Adolf: Villa MüllerVilla Müller, Prague; designed by Adolf Loos. Educated in Dresden, Germany, Loos practiced in Vienna, although he spent extended periods in the Unite...
Goldman & Salatsch Building. Image ©Wikimedia user Thomas Ledllicensed underCC BY-SA 4.0 Adolf Loos(December 10, 1870 – August 23, 1933) was one of the most influential European architects of the late 19th century and is often noted for his literary discourse that foreshadowed the founda...