lecture 6 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Q: Who designed the original interior of Café Museum in Vienna, and when did it open?
Adolf loos
What was significant about Café Museum in relation to Viennese culture?
A: It became a meeting place for Viennese artists in 1899.
What parallel is theorized between Adolf Loos and Sigmund Freud
Loos’s architectural facades and Freud’s unconscious mind both deal with hidden layers of identity (early 1900s context).
What did Wilhelm Schölermann write in 1899 about the Café Museum?
It not only shows how the useful is contained in the beautiful but how the beautiful is contained in the useful.”
What object did Adolf Loos design in 1931?
Drinking Set No. 248 for Lobmeyr.
What is the title and year of Adolf Loos’s famous lecture?
Ornament and Crime,” delivered in 1910.
What major event did Adolf Loos attend in 1893, and why was it influential?
The Chicago World Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition); it influenced his admiration for modern American architecture and efficiency.
What did Loos famously say after visiting the U.S. in 1893?
“Happy is the land that has no such stragglers and marauders; happy is America.”
Who designed the Transportation Building for the Chicago World Fair, and when?
Louis Sullivan in 1893.
What titles are associated with Louis Sullivan (1856–1924)?
“Father of Skyscrapers” and “Father of Modernism.”
When did Louis Sullivan publish “Ornament in Architecture”?
1892.
When did Louis Sullivan publish “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,” and where?
In 1896, in America Builds by Leland M. Roth.
What year was the National Farmer’s Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota built?
1908, designed by Louis Sullivan.
When was the Wainwright Building constructed, and by whom?
Constructed in 1891, designed by Louis Sullivan.
