Publication detail

Loos after Loos: What Happened to the Raumplan After 1933?

JACKSON, L.

Original Title

Loos after Loos: What Happened to the Raumplan After 1933?

Type

presentation, poster

Language

English

Original Abstract

In 1931, the Vienna publishing house Anton Schroll & Co. published Heinrich Kulka’s extensive monograph on Adolf Loos. In his text, Kulka discussed Loos’s idea of being an architect, he wrote about ornament and the reduction of ornament, and then, on about one page, he outlined Loos’s space concept, which he named “raumplan”. After Loos’s death in 1933, many of his apprentices continued designing “in the Loos manner”, as Heinrich Kulka promoted his projects from the mid-1930s. What was the real purpose of the invention and use of the term “raumplan“ by Loos’s pupils and has there been anything like that after Loos’s death? The lecture will try to answer this question using examples of post-Loos works by Heinrich Kulka and Kurt Unger from 1933 to 1939.

Keywords

Adolf Loos; Heinrich Kulka; Kurt Unger; Modern Architecture; Raumplan; Central Europe; Sokolov; Hradec Kralove; Borivoj Kriegerbeck; Norbert Krieger

Authors

JACKSON, L.

Released

4. 3. 2021

Publisher

Conference: Adolf Loos - In Search of Space for Modern Life, Czech Center, 4. 3. 2021

Location

New York

URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7fJRisCWI&t=4s

BibTex

@misc{BUT170554,
  author="Ladislav {Jackson}",
  title="Loos after Loos: What Happened to the Raumplan After 1933?",
  year="2021",
  publisher="Conference: Adolf Loos - In Search of Space for Modern Life,  Czech Center, 4. 3. 2021",
  address="New York",
  url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7fJRisCWI&t=4s",
  note="presentation, poster"
}

Documents

loos-and-pilsen-_-new-york-_-program.pdf