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The second of a two-part series on Adolf Loos, “From Interior to Urban City” introduces 36 various works divided into four chapters: “Residential Addition and Alternation Plans”, “Interior Design”, “Collective Housing”, and “Mixed-use Facilities”. Although most of the housing and mixed-use projects are unbuilt, it includes new models, drawings, and graphics based on original sketches, photographs, and previous research, which in turn offer insight into how Loos’s complex three-dimensional spaces are seen in a variety of typologies. Maps and a chronology of the architect’s projects complete the issue, guest edited by Yoshio Sakurai, Tokyo University professor and an expert on Loos.

Introduction: The Oeuvre of Adolf Loos
Yoshio Sakurai
Project Maps and List
 
Chapter 1: Residential Addition and Alteration Plans
– Potential Residential Remodeling
Villa Karma
Villa Duschnitz
Villa Mandle
Villa Strasser
Villa Reitler
Brummel House
 
Chapter 2: Shop Design Planning and Residential Interior Design
– Creating the Feeling of Intimacy
Café Museum
Loos Apartment
Kärntner Bar
Knize Gentleman’s Fitting Shop
Manz Bookshop
Boskovitz Apartment
Vogl House
Kraus House
Hugo Semler House
Oskar Semler House
 
Chapter 3: Collective Housing
– Pursuing the Reality of Livelihood
Lainz Social Housing
Hirschstetten Social Housing
Heuberg Social Housing
Social Housing Project
Building System “House with One Wall”
Laaerberg Social Housing
Apartment House in Modenapark
Small Apartments for the Municipality of Vienna
Winarsky-hof (Otto-Haas-hof)
Group of 20 Villas with Roof Terraces
Werkbund Social Housing for Two Families
 
Chapter 4: Mixed-used Facilities
– Symbolic and Monumental Characteristic
City Development Plan, Vienna, First District, Map of Vienna with
Projected Regulation
Friedrichstraße Hotel
Gartenbau-gründe Project
Loos House
Hotel in Paris
Office Project in Paris
Grand Hotel Babylon
Multfunctional Building in Tianjin
The Chicago Tribune Column
 
Application Drawings
 
Column: Adolf Loos’s Space as Seen from Model Production
Shohei Yoshida
Conclusion: Modernism and the Avoidance of Style
Yoshio Sakurai
 
Essay Series, vol. 2: Temple and Shrine Carpentry and Technique
Suguru Kanata