A305/12: Adolf Loos

In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit www.cca.qc.ca/....
In television broadcast 12, Tim Benton looks at a number of buildings in Vienna designed by Adolf Loos, including the Goldman and Salatsch store, Kniže’s, the Scheu house and the Moller house. These projects illustrate Loos’s characteristic handling of space and concern with craftsmanship and materials. Benton shows how Loos’s work developed from a sophisticated version of Arts and Crafts to something close to the International Style.
Written by Tim Benton, directed by Edward Hayward, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 7 June 1975 on BBC2.

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more of this plz

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What a hidden gem...

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This is why I love the internet.

[@bdodds9183]

You got a project on loos too?

[@danielhedger6060]

@@bdodds9183 Yup.

[@pianoingels7128]

@@bdodds9183 shouldnt do it for the projet, this man is a genius, read "ornament und verbrechen"

[@adzakael]

Please enable Community Contribution for this video so I can help edit the subtitles. I cannot stand to see Adolf Loos' name misspelled into something else.

[@christopherrichardwadedett4100]

These homes need to be 3D printed around the world in superplastics which mimic all known textures and colors: First digitize the unique features.

[@deepakjayanth300]

Thanku so much for making this video :)

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Ah oui

[@hamishblennerhassett370]

Socks and sandals???

[@AlphonsodeBarbo]

The criminal influence of Adolf Loos on the architecture of the twentieth century is a blot on the concept of civilised (English spelling!) taste! Unfortunately his influence is perpetuated in the architectural design of buildings up to the present time. Architects need to find a new doyen, one that inspires rather than depresses. In my country the preponderance of his style of architecture gives a sterile, mentally stultifying effect that can only be assuaged by stepping back to a time before his pernicious influence was unleashed upon the world!

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wow...some statement

[@ДанилаЛимонов-ж3е]

Cringe

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[@chriskappert1365]

You realy not want to enjoy a glass of wine with a nice woman on a terras surrounded by these modern buildings .
That cold empty lack of imagination , brrrrrrrrrrr !

[@jk_____555]

i get your point...beware not to fall on reactionary stances though. my take is that his style worked and enhanced certain programmes (more functional, institutional architecture). austerity with preponderance of quality materials in elegant, sober ways. that's fine. the problem is that austerity has become a scapegoat for utter mediocrity and developer's cost-cutting rampages.
on the other hand, not every architect needs to be a Scarpa or a Lloyd Wright. some laid back, simplistic design is needed in order to exalt the grandiose.