The exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the pioneer Adolf Loos

Prague - A key work of the famous architect Adolf Loos, focusing on his buildings and interiors in the Czech lands, is presented in an exhibition that opened today at the National Technical Museum. The Brno-born architect, who significantly influenced modern architecture, was born 150 years ago on December 10. The organizers named the exhibition, which was inaugurated today with a live-streamed vernissage, "Adolf Loos, World Citizen." It will run until August 1.

"I have a personal relationship with Adolf Loos's work because I had the opportunity to oversee the reconstruction of the Müller Villa more than 20 years ago," said Karel Ksandr, Director General of the National Technical Museum. The Museum of the Capital City of Prague, which manages the Müller Villa in Střešovice, also contributed to the exhibition. This year marks the 90th anniversary of its establishment.

The authors of the exhibition created a rectangular diagram of Loos's life on the floor of the exhibition hall, with a schematic golden line representing his life path, where the intersections of the grid of temporal and spatial coordinates recall the most important Loos projects in the Czech lands and around the world. Models of the world-famous Müller Villa from Prague are complemented by models of the Brummel House in Plzeň, rows of administrative houses in Náchod - Babí, an unrealized proposal for the Jordan Apartment Building in Brno, and lesser-known buildings from the sugar refinery complex in Hrušovany near Brno.

The models are supplemented by photographs of the current state of preserved exteriors and interiors of buildings in the Czech lands, divided according to the most important categories of Loos's work. These included the relationship between the interior and the exterior, enfilade or the connection of individual rooms, symmetry, thoughtful interior furniture arrangement, or raumplan, a principle of internal spatial organization where the height of the space is determined by the room's area and function. Thus, his houses are not divided into classic floors.

Loos's knowledge of the properties of noble building materials is represented by the last series of photographs. The exhibition is complemented by three original seating furniture pieces from both private and public collections that Adolf Loos personally designed or selected for his interiors.