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Adolf Loos exhibited early signs of dementia around the time of his court proceedings. A few months before his death he suffered a stroke. He died aged 62 on 23 August 1933 in Kalksburg near Vienna. Loos's body was taken to Vienna's Zentralfriedhof to rest among the great artists and musicians of the city, including Schoenberg, Altenberg and Kraus, some of his closest friends and associates. Through his writings and his groundbreaking projects in Vienna, Loos was able to influence other architects and designers, and the early development of Modernism. His careful selection of materials, passion for craftsmanship and use of 'Raumplan'—the considered ordering and size of interior spaces based on function—are still admired.
== Major works ==
1899 Café Museum, Vienna 1904 Villa Karma, Montreux, Switzerland 1907 Field Christian Cross, Radešínská Svratka, Czech Republic 1908 American Bar (formerly the Kärntner Bar), Vienna 1910 Steiner House, Vienna 1910 Goldman & Salatsch Building, overlooking Michaelerplatz, Vienna (a mixed-use building known colloquially as the "Looshaus") 1913 Scheu House, Vienna (childhood home of modernist Elizabeth Close, née Scheu) 1914 Villa for sugar mill director, Hrušovany u Brna, Czech Republic 1915 Sugar mill, Hrušovany u Brna, Czech Republic 1915–16 Villa Duschnitz (re-model), Vienna 1921 Mausoleum for Max Dvořák (unbuilt) 1922 Rufer House, Vienna 1925 Maison Tzara, house and studio, Montmartre, Paris, for Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of Dadaism 1926 Villa Moller, Vienna 1927 House (not built), Paris, for the American entertainer Josephine Baker 1928 Villa Müller, Prague, Czech Republic 1929 Khuner Villa, Kreuzberg, Austria 1932 Villa Winternitz, Na Cihlářce 10, Praha 5, Czech Republic 1928–1933 many residential interiors in Plzeň, Czech Republic
== Exhibitions == Adolf Loos - Exposition Du Cinquantenaire (23.02. – 16.04.1983) Paris (Institut Francais d´Architecture with Austrian Culture Institute, Paris) Ancienne Galerie, 6, rue du Tournon, 75006 Paris Gründerzeit: Adolf Loos (11.04.1987 – 21.06.1987) Städtische Galerie der Stadt Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany ADOLF LOOS (02.12.1989-25.02.1990) (joint exposition on 3 locations) Albertina, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, Looshaus, Vienna Adolf Loos „Private Spaces“ (14.12.2017 – 25.02.2018) Museu del Dessiny de Barcelona, Spain Adolf Loos „Private Spaces“ (28.03.2018-24-06.2018) Caixa Forum Madrid, Spain WAGNER, HOFFMANN, LOOS AND THE FURNITURE DESIGN OF VIENNESE MODERNISM (21.03.-07.10.2018) Imperial Furniture Collection (Hofmobiliendepot), Vienna Adolf Loos: Private Houses (08.12.2020-14.03.2021) MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna „Loos2021“ (25.9.2020 – 30.5.2021) Loos Rooms at the Vienna Library, (former Boskovits flat) Bartensteingasse 9/5, 1010 Wien
== Bibliography == Loos, Adolf (2 May 2007). On Architecture. Ariadne Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-57241-098-5. Loos, Adolf; Opel, Adolf (15 November 1997). Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays. Ariadne Press (CA). p. 204. ISBN 1-57241-046-9. Loos, Adolf (1982). Trotzdem, 1900–1930 (in German). G. Prachner. p. 218. ISBN 3-85367-037-7. Loos, Adolf; Heinrich Kulka (1931). Adolf Loos: Das Werk des Architekten (in German). Anton Schroll & Co, Neues Bauen in Der Welt, IV. Loos, Adolf (1983). Die Potemkin'sche Stadt: Verschollene Schriften, 1897–1933 (in German). Prachner. p. 231. ISBN 3-85367-038-5. Loos, Adolf (2013). Why a man should be well-dressed: Appearances Can be Revealing. Metroverlag. p. 231. ISBN 978-3-99300-040-0.
== References ==
== Further reading == Bock, Ralf (2007). Adolf Loos. Geneve: Skira. ISBN 978-88-7624-643-2. Coppa, Alessandra (2013). Adolf Loos. Milan, Italy: 24 ore cultura. ISBN 9788866481485. Foster, Hal (2003). Design and Crime (And other diatribes). London: Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-453-3. Gravagnuolo, Benedetto (1995). Adolf Loos, Theory and Works. London: Art Data. ISBN 0-948835-16-8. Long, Christopher (2017). Adolf Loos on Trial. Prague: Kant. ISBN 978-80-7437-226-1. Mann, Philip. The Dandy at Dusk: Taste and Melancholy in the Twentieth Century. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78669-517-8 Masheck, Joseph (2013). Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture. New York: I. B. Tauris. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-78076-423-8. Oechslin, Werner, "Stilhülse und Kern: Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos und der evolutionäre Weg zur modernen Architektur", Zuerich 1994. Ottillinger, Eva (1994). Adolf Loos Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe. Salzburg: Residenz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7017-0850-5. Rukschcio, Burkhardt; Schachel, Roland (1982). Adolf Loos: Leben und Werk. Salzburg: Residenz. ISBN 3-7017-0288-8. Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary (New York, Columbia GSAPP, 2013), eds. Y. Safran and Cristobal Amunategui. Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition "Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary," a cooperation between Columbia University GSAPP in New York, the MAK in Vienna, and the CAAA in Guimaraes. Essays by Beatriz Colomina, Hermann Czech, Rainald Franz, Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Christopher Long, Can Onaner, Daniel Sherer, Philip Ursprung. Tournikiotis, Panayiotis (1996). Adolf Loos. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 1-878271-80-6. Sherer, Daniel. "Adorno's Reception of Loos: Modern Architecture, Aesthetic Theory, and the Critique of Ornament," Potlatch 3 (Spring 2014), 19–31
== External links ==
Works by or about Adolf Loos at the Internet Archive Adolf Loos online exhibition images, podcasts and video about Loos's life and work. Royal Institute of British Architects Adolf Loos, Vienna 1900 & Austrian Modern Architecture Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine TourMyCountry.com Adolf Loos biography 1870–1933 Archived 8 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine WOKA Lamps Vienna Muirhead, Thomas. "Adolf Loos seen through the keyhole". Building Design. Archived from the original on 17 November 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.