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Adolf Loos in Vienna, Paris and Prague : living in interwar Europe

Abstract

This thesis examines the second part of the career of the architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) from the end of the First World War until 1933, and especially after his departure from Vienna in 1923. From the mid-1920’s onwards, Loos built, projected and published between France, Czechoslovakia and Austria. Our working hypothesis is that, far from being a period "in hollow" as historiography has often presented it, this period is marked by a wider diffusion of Loos' thought and the logics of internationalization and explains to a large extent his critical fortune. During this period, Loos opened up to new conceptions of architecture with a commitment to social housing and planned a new career far from Vienna by settling in Paris and then travelling on his building sites between France, Austria and Czechoslovakia thanks to his networks of clients and friends. Above all, his thoughts and writings are widely disseminated through the multiple media that Loos liked to use and thanks to mediators who act as relays to their peers to increase his notoriety. Because of his displacements, this period gave rise to a series of circulations via his publications, exhibitions and constructions outside Austria and its capital. Finally, his students, old and new, travelling and building throughout Europe as part of their own personal careers, also seek to spread the thought of their master. The thesis is based on the analysis of previously unpublished archival documents from France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Italy and their cross-referencing with previously published sources.

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