Adolf Loos - In Search of Space for Modern Life

Online discussion with experts in framework of the exhibition Adolf Loos and Pilsen.
2PM - 4:30 PM ET, (20:00 - 22:30 CET) on ZOOM, Free, RSVP required
The conference will be in English with simultaneous interpretation into Czech. 

Panel 1: Adolf Loos - Between America and Europe
Host: Michael Haider (Austrian Cultural Forum)

Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University): Loos before Loos:  Discovering America in the Wake of the World’s Columbian Exhibition

Julia Secklehner (Masaryk University): Adolf Loos, Celebrity: On the Architect’s Popular Reception in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia

Panel 2: After Loos - Are We Still Inspired by the Raumplan?
Host: Kimberly Elman Zarecor (Iowa State University)

Ladislav Jackson (Brno University of Technology): Loos after Loos: What Happened to the Raumplan After 1933?

Filip Šenk (Technical University of Liberec): Spatial Thinking and Mood: Notes on the Connection between Loos and Contemporary Architecture

Closing remarks: Christopher Long, The University of Texas at Austin

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