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Explore the design of the Looshaus, Adolf Loos' architectural manifesto against ornamental excess, an icon of early modernist architecture.

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Completed in 2019 in Wien, Austria. Images by Ute Müller. It all began when four artists from Austria and Germany at a Los Angeles artists’ residency decided to reconstruct Adolf Loos’ famous American Bar....

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Designculture • Adolf Loos

One of the most beautiful early modern houses, in my opinion, is the Villa Karma by Adolf Loos (primary designer, 1904-1906 - Hugo Ehrlich finished the design). Loos is known as one of the foremost early modernists who abandoned ornament of any kind. The Villa Karma on Switzerland's Lake Geneva was his first major project, and here he was experimenting with what modernism was and yet still referencing the classical tradition more than in his later projects. It's this juxtoposition that I…

Adolf Loos; portrait, 1903