Adolf Loos – Private spaces

The exhibition Adolf Loos. Private Spaces presents, for the first time in Spain, a vast display of the work of this outstanding figure in Viennese architecture, a pioneer in the debate between spaces in public and private life. The show highlights the aesthetic revolution led by Loos (1870-1933) when, in the Austrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century, he rebelled against the Viennese Secession, proposing economy in architectural construction and design, reviving the classical column and facing and the traditional values of the classical style.
Adolf Loos will explore the literary, architectural and philosophical context of early-twentieth-century Vienna and will feature projects and around one hundred objects from among the furniture used in houses and apartments designed by Loos. It is in these interior spaces in which we find Adolf Loos at his most revolutionary. The apartment is the intimate sphere, the individual’s refuge from social life. Loos’ design of private spaces and his use of domestic furniture richly illustrate the new forms that lifestyle culture was beginning to adopt.

The exhibition is a coproduction by Museu del Disseny de Barcelona and “la Caixa” Foundation. The works are from the Hummel Collection, Vienna, the Albertina Museum of Vienna, the Architekturemuseum.Technische niversität, Munich, the Historisches Museum der Stadt of Vienna and a private collection in the United Kingdom.

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona/Barcelona Design Museum
2 December 2017 to 18 February 2018
Curator: Pilar Parcerisas