He denied any standing as an architect per se. By 1906 Loos was known as a polemicist and his work considered important both as a social and architectural critic and interior designer. In addition, he published many essays as well as other writings, but is most well known for Das Andere ( The Other), Ornament and Crime, and Spoken into the Void: collections of his essays published long after his reputation was solidly established. Between 18 his reputation was largely built on speaking engagements in many cities throughout Europe, where he advertised his ideas and his architectural work. He travelled to the United States (1893) where he lived and worked for three years, returning to Vienna in 1896.
His influence is debated as Loos is known partly for the rich use of stone especially marble cladding, in his interiors, and it is easy to draw a connection, however tenuous.įrom 1884 Loos studied various disciplines in Brünn, but turned eventually to architecture after completing his education at the National School of Arts and Crafts (1889) and a stint in Dresden, 1892. His father was a sculptor and stonecutter who died while Loos was only nine years old.
He was born in 1870 in Brünn (Brno), north of Vienna, in what was then the Austrian-Hungarian empire. Loos is often described as a Viennese architect. Some people place him among the pantheon of the world’s greatest ‘moderns’, along with Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius although he was not a ‘modernist’ in any traditional sense. Adolf Loos is an enormously complicated figure: prescient, bold, and full of paradoxes that make him difficult to classify and his work difficult to describe in summary terms.
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