The new updated monograph documenting the entire creative activity of one of the leading
masters of Modern European architecture. Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was an early-20th century
Viennese architect for his radical facades and for his writings. In this volume Ralf Bock
reveals for the first time the sensuality of Loos' interior designs demonstrating that Loos
was not an architect of the white modern movement? but rather fought against it as he saw the
work of purism move in the opposite direction of what he had envisioned. He believed in culture
comfort intimacy and privacy. He advocated the evolution of tradition and utility and not
revolution and the permanent invention of formal design. This book offers a careful analysis of
Loos's ideology and oeuvre. It features 30 existing projects through 160 extraordinary
full-colour images by the celebrated French photographer Philippe Ruault who completely
re-photographed the existing works of the Viennese master. These new images offer different
impressions and interpretations of Loos' interior works and bring him back to the centre of
contemporary architectural debate. The colour photographs are supplemented by archival photos
from the Loos archive of the Albertina Vienna. Other unique aspects of the book include
profiles of Loos' clients and their relationship with the architect interviews with people who
inhabit Loos' work today and a completely new set of project drawings with the original
interior design and analyses.
