3. ARCHITECT’s BACKGROUND
ADOLF LOOS
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore,
is to make those sentiments more precise.
Born in 1870,
Brunn, Czech Republic
1870
4. earlylife
Studied In:
Royal and Imperial State College in Rechendberg, Bohemia.
College of Technology, Dresden.
Left school without graduating.
Travelled to United States
Worked as:
Mason
Floor- layer
Dish-Washer
1886
1889
1890
1893-1896
6. style
• Rejection of decorative elements.
• Combination of dandy, artist , architect, art critic.
• Most brilliant and multitalented personalities of 20th
century architecture
• Believed in the merging of crafts and architecture.
• Spatial planning.
• Room of different heights.
7. “True vocabulary of architecture lies in the
materials themselves”
-Adolf Loos-
1898
principlesofbuildings
9. His theories culminated in a
s h o r t e s s a y e n t i t l e d ,
"Ornament And Crime,"
published in 1908. This book
was translated in Esprit
Nouveau, a publication edited
by Le Corbusier , Paul Dermee
and Ozenfant in the year
1920.
1908
14. chicagotribunetower
• Challenge to design “the most beautiful
and distinctive office building of the world”
— and a prize of $50,000
• This architecture stood out above all the
others for its singular polemic: a 120m high
Doric column by dogmatic Viennese
architect Adolf Loos.
• The polished black granite columns,
durable classical symbols in a building,
were altogether useful and therefore
beautiful.
1922
19. latestage
• Recognised as Master in Architecture.
• He was bestowed with an annual honorific income by the
president of the Czechoslovakian Republic
• Passed away
1930
1933
22. scheuhouse
• Built for Gustav and Helen Scheu.
• The residents of the suburb were shocked by the new
aesthetics that the house would bring into their area
and saw the house as a disgrace and an insult to
common sense.
• Different from the symmetrical and neo-classical style
27. first
Flat Roof as
Outdoor Terrace
Bedroom faces east
enjoys a generous balcony
Different sized
windows
based on the combination of a single
module (living room, bed room…)
33. Approach – Distant view of Scheu House
circulation
- Plain exterior
- Exemplifies personal liberty
(different from the surrounding
houses) and simplicity
34. Entrance to atticEntrance to Main house
“ a building consisting of two houses, the main house and
a separate apartment located in the higher modulus “
entrance
38. Spiral Staircase that connect
the attic and the main house
Straight run stair and L-shaped
stairs connect the basement,
ground floor and first floor.
formofcirculationspace
40. Outdoor Terrace The flat roof act as an
outdoor terrace that
would play an important
role in the development
of 20th century
architecture.
The East-facing bedroom gains
a generous balcony in front
that is set back 4 meters
elements
41. The flat roof and the balconies are designed
waterproof that used reinforced concrete.
This able to make the platform no longer needs to
conduct storm-water.
42. The total length of the exterior wall of the
building is 16m long in total with all different
sizes of windows based on the combination of
module
It’s a kind of opening in the space-defining
elements.
The black of the windows(opening) is also use
to balance the white of the wall.
Doors
This door seems like
a main entrance
with the first sight
but it’s acuatly an
entrance to the
attic.
This is the main
entrance to the
house.
windows
43. Dark & unpolished oak
was used in the day area
White , painted wood
wasa used in bedroom
Reflects a notion
domestic space develop
by Adolf Loos.
Ornamental wood beams
also use in the interior of
the scheu house.
walls
44. Vertical elements
defining space :
Walls
The main element is the
four planes - closure
which form by four
planes (walls) to
establish the boundaries
of an introverted space.
There is also U-shaped
plane and others.
walls
45. The windows that allow sunlight goes through into the basement is to ensure future
development of the basement that might become a gym in the future.
basementopening
46. essay
Architecture :
Explained the importance of contradictions in design:
Interior Exterior
Monument
and the
house
Art Works Functions
1910
