Adolf Loos

Artist: Adolf Loos 
Author: Heinrich (Henry) Kulka 
Publisher: Anton Schroll & Co. 
Date: 1931 
Condition: Bound in the original yellow line boards with red and brown embossed titles, handling marks and discolouration to the edges and the spine a little faded. Some foxing to the text pages throughout, but the photograph pages are largely clean. Some general handling marks and a couple of light pencil annotations to some of the plan pages. Text in German. The front endpaper with a handwritten ink dedication dated to 1948 and the title page having Heinrich Kulka's name anglicised to Henry Kulka in ink by another hand (I have been unable to establish if this is the author's signature or by another hand.)

Loosely inserted are four black and white photographic prints which appear to be either copies of or alternate shots of images reproduced in the book, each with the Photo-Atelier Gerlach, Wien stamp verso, each approx. 22 x 17 cm

Loos was an important figure in forward-looking architecture in the early years of the c20th, with his ideas being particularly key to the Vienna Secession and the development of modernism. This biography and record of his work was written by Heinrich (Henry) Kulka, Loos' most notable student and collaborator, and remains a seminal volume on Loos' work. Kulka spent a short time in England before moving to New Zealand where his work was very influential on modern architectural practice.