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Christopher Long: The New Interior: Viennese Domestic Design and the Wiener Wohnkultur 1907–1914
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Location: Gallery VIPER, Vítkova 293, Praha 8
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The lecture deals with how three leading Viennese modernists – Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad – redefined the idea of modern interior design in just seven years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War . The paper follows the progress of their debates and work and the way in which each of the designers tried to formulate their own distinctive vision of housing. The most important new development that emerged at this time was the idea of the so-called Wiener Wohnkultur (literally Viennese living culture), which promoted comfortable and colorful interiors that were modern but not overly so. Oskar Strnad, the main author of this new concept of design, established a series of principles that sought to counter the prevailing doctrine of functionalism.
Christopher Long is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recognized expert on Central European and American modern architecture and design. His numerous books include New Space: Movement and Experience in Central European Modern Architecture (2023), Jock Peters, Architect and Designer: The Varieties of Modernism (2021), Adolf Loos: The Last Houses (2021) and Essays on Adolf Loos (2019). He recently published three new books: Lucian Bernhard (2023), Adolf Loos: Meaning, context, reception. Essays (2024) and American Modernness: The New Graphic Art in the United States, 1890–1940 (2024).
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This lecture examines how, in the course of just seven years immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I, three of the leading Viennese modernists—Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Oskar Strnad—redefined the idea of the modern interior. The talk follows the progress of their debates and works, and how each designer sought to frame his own distinctive vision of living. The most important new development to emerge from this time was the idea of the so-called Wiener Wohnkultur (literally Viennese living culture), which promoted comfortable and colorful interiors that were modern, but not too modern. Oskar Strnad, the principal author of this new design concept, set out a series of tenets that sought to counter the prevailing doctrine of functionalism.
Christopher Long is Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. A noted expert on Central European and American modern architecture and design, his many books include New Space: Movement and Experience in Central European Modern Architecture (2023), Jock Peters, Architect and Designer: The Varieties of Modernism (2021), Adolf Loos: The Last Houses / Posledni domy (2021), and Essays on Adolf Loos (2019). Recently he has published three new books: Lucian Bernhard (2023), Adolf Loos: Meaning, context, reception. Essays (2024), and American Modernness: The New Graphic Art in the United States, 1890–1940 (2024).
The lecture deals with how three leading Viennese modernists – Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad – redefined the idea of modern interior design in just seven years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War . The paper follows the progress of their debates and work and the way in which each of the designers tried to formulate their own distinctive vision of housing. The most important new development that emerged at this time was the idea of the so-called Wiener Wohnkultur (literally Viennese living culture), which promoted comfortable and colorful interiors that were modern but not overly so. Oskar Strnad, the main author of this new concept of design, established a series of principles that sought to counter the prevailing doctrine of functionalism.
Christopher Long is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recognized expert on Central European and American modern architecture and design. His numerous books include New Space: Movement and Experience in Central European Modern Architecture (2023), Jock Peters, Architect and Designer: The Varieties of Modernism (2021), Adolf Loos: The Last Houses (2021) and Essays on Adolf Loos (2019). He recently published three new books: Lucian Bernhard (2023), Adolf Loos: Meaning, context, reception. Essays (2024) and American Modernness: The New Graphic Art in the United States, 1890–1940 (2024).
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This lecture examines how, in the course of just seven years immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I, three of the leading Viennese modernists—Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Oskar Strnad—redefined the idea of the modern interior. The talk follows the progress of their debates and works, and how each designer sought to frame his own distinctive vision of living. The most important new development to emerge from this time was the idea of the so-called Wiener Wohnkultur (literally Viennese living culture), which promoted comfortable and colorful interiors that were modern, but not too modern. Oskar Strnad, the principal author of this new design concept, set out a series of tenets that sought to counter the prevailing doctrine of functionalism.
Christopher Long is Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. A noted expert on Central European and American modern architecture and design, his many books include New Space: Movement and Experience in Central European Modern Architecture (2023), Jock Peters, Architect and Designer: The Varieties of Modernism (2021), Adolf Loos: The Last Houses / Posledni domy (2021), and Essays on Adolf Loos (2019). Recently he has published three new books: Lucian Bernhard (2023), Adolf Loos: Meaning, context, reception. Essays (2024), and American Modernness: The New Graphic Art in the United States, 1890–1940 (2024).