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SERIEN STUDENTENARBEIT  •  STUDENT WORK

                                                                             durch natürliches und künstliches Licht geschaffen. Das natürliche Licht tritt über das
                                    Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart         Architekturelement Fenster in den Raum ein. Die Lichtführung kann durch die Position
                                                                             und Größe der Fenster bestimmt werden. Bei Adolf Loos erhält das natürliche Licht meist
                                    www.hft-stuttgart.de                     als Filter einen  Vorhang  vorgesetzt, da er den Innenraum privat hielt. Ein  weiterer
                                    1832 als Winterschule für Bauhandwerk gegründet  wichtiger Punkt ist die Beleuchtung der Materialität durch das natürliche Licht, um das
                                    rund 3.900 Studierende                   Spiel der Reflexion der auf Hochglanz polierten Materialien zu intensivieren. Alle fünf
                                                                             Punkte sind für das Gelingen eines Loos´schen Raumes zu bedenken und schaffen im
                                                                             Zusammenspiel einen gelungenen Innenraum. Ich bin überzeugt, mit meiner Arbeit eine
                                                                             neue Sichtweise auf das Werk von Adolf Loos zu geben. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den
                                                                             Werken von Adolf Loos hat mich zu einer besseren Innenarchitektin gemacht und ich
                                                                             sehe ihn als Vorbild für meine Arbeit. Die Masterthesis ist Teil einer Publikation zu Loos,
                                                                             die  2017  von  Professor  Wolfgang  Grillitsch  und  Dr.-Ing.  Hans-Jürgen  Breuning,  beide
                                                                             lehren an der Hochschule für Technik in Stuttgart, herausgegeben werden soll.

                                                                             A  dolf Loos – Vordenker, Vorreiter, Vorbild [A.L. – thought leader, pioneer, model] is
                                                                                the title of my master thesis in the programme International Master of Interior
                                                                             Architectural Design (IMIAD) at the Hochschule für Technik in Stuttgart. Adolf Loos is
                                                                             usually  first  mentioned  in  connection  with  his  lecture  “Ornament  und  Verbrechen”
                                                                             [Ornament and crime] of 1908. Many also know the Loos House in Vienna and the Villa
                                                                             Müller in Prague but Loos should not be limited to just this. His architectural as well as
                                                                             his literary work is far more comprehensive and visionary. For some time already, as
                                                                             part of the IMIAD studies and under the direction of Professor Wolfgang Grillitsch, work
                                                                             and research is being done on Adolf Loos. My objective was to investigate to which
                                                                             extent students – particularly those of interior design – can today learn from the work
                                                                             by Adolf Loos and whether he continues to have a relevant position for contemporary
                                                                             interior design. As a first step, I intensely concentrated on Adolf Loos (1870–1933) as a
                                                                             person. It is remarkable that personalities from music, art, literature, politics and sci-
               Interieur im Haus Liebstein-Brummel in Pilsen • Interior in Liebstein-Brummel House in Pilsen  ences were among the people he knew. Thus the painter Oskar Kokoschka was Loos’s
                                                                             foster son and among his closest friends were the composer Arnold Schönberg as well
                                                                             as the writers Karl Kraus and Peter Altenberg. Richard Neutra was a student at his
                                                                             Bauschule. Loos lived and worked at the time of the Viennese Modern Age around1900
                                                                             when Vienna had a high appeal for a wide variety of cultures. To get to know the most
                                                                             important domains and works of Adolf Loos the architect, I went on a study trip. In
                                                                             Vienna, Brno and Prague, perceiving and experiencing Loos’s work was paramount.
                                                                             Already prior to the trip, the decision was reached to put the focus of the thesis on
                                                                             analysing the interiors in Pilsen and the residential spaces as Loos designed them. The
                                                                             interiors in Pilsen are hardly published and were restored and made accessible to the
                                                                             public until 2015 when the city was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture.
                                                                             That is why I recorded the interiors of the houses Brummel-Liebstein, Kraus, Semmler
                                                                             and Vogl Houses in every detail as to dimensions, materials and atmosphere and estab-
               Haus Liebstein-Brummel in Pilsen: Grundriss ... • Brummel-Liebstein House in Pilsen: layout ...  lished comprehensive plan material. During the trip, I was also able to meet and inter-
                                                                             view various experts on Loos such as Dr Markus Kristan, art historian and curator of the
               ... und Arbeitszimmer-Wandabwicklung • ... and developed view of study walls
                                                                             architectural collection of the Albertina in Vienna and Karel Zoch, an architect in Pilsen.
                                                                             Adolf Loos was not only an architectural pioneer but also a thought leader as to the the-
                                                                             ory of architecture. His work thus not only includes a multitude of writings in which he
                                                                             commented on architecture as well as on what was going on in the world and on con-
                                                                             cerns of daily life. With his articles and lectures, Adolf Loos again and again reached the
                                                                             general public since they were published in newspapers and not only in specialist jour-
                                                                             nals. Based on this knowledge about Adolf Loos and the investigation of his architectur-
                                                                             al elements in the interiors in Pilsen, I established five points regarding Loos which I
                                                                             assigned to our five digits. These five points can for us be a model of successful interior
                                                                             design and we are thus learning from Loos. To list just three: The index finger stands for
                                                                             value. The concept of value is here seen in connection with materials and workman-
                                                                             ship. The materials which play an important role for Loos, are significant for the room
                                                                             atmosphere. What is essential is not only the feel, structure and the natural colour but
                                                                             also the surface treatment. His canon of materials includes veneers of noble woods, fab-
                                                                             rics, mirror glass, printed wallpaper and marble. He used precious veneers for his wall
                                                                             coverings and built-in furniture. Many of the materials are high-gloss polished and
                                                                             reflect the light. Loos also produces the reflection of the room with mirror surfaces. Loos
                                                                             designed with genuine materials according to his “Prinzip der Bekleidung” [Principle of
                                                                             clothing] from 1898.  The middle finger as the centre of the hand stands for
                                                                             “Raumdramaturgie”. Adolf Loos was able to establish dramaturgy in the room by creat-
                                                                             ing zones, connections, volumes and geometries. The room dramaturgy also includes
                                                                             his famous “Raumplan” according to which rooms should be structured in their heights
                                                                             and assigned a specific height depending on their functions.



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