Prague wants to make accessible the interiors created by Adolf Loos

Plzeň - Plzeň wants to make the preserved interiors of apartments, which were created in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century by the world-renowned architect Adolf Loos, accessible as much as possible by 2015. This was decided by the city council, informed the spokesperson of the magistrate, Zdeňka Kubalová.
Some of Loos's apartments are owned by private individuals, while the city owns four of them. Although the interiors are not complete, they represent a Europeanly valuable example of the architect's work. The city also plans to start negotiations with the region this year about the possible establishment of a Center for Research on 19th and 20th Century Architecture, including a permanent Loos exhibition.
Loos often stayed in Plzeň, and his last wife, photographer Claire Beck, came from there. He renovated, for example, the Brummel House on Husova Street and created 13 apartment interiors. Experts consider them to be extremely valuable. Not all of them have been preserved.
The city owns, for example, the apartment at Klatovská 12. The original living room and dining room are currently used by the city's Public Property Administration as meeting rooms. At Klatovská 19, in a building previously managed by the military, four original rooms have been preserved - a music salon, salon, dining room, and a fragment of a children's room. On Bendova Street, there is a living room connected to a dining room and a bedroom.
At Klatovská 110, the original owners' apartment has been divided into four residential units and a studio. The principle of the so-called Raumplan, a spatial plan that offered a living hall and gallery with entrances to individual rooms on the first floor, has been preserved in the building. A permanent Loos exhibition and a center for 19th and 20th-century architecture could be established in this building.
The future of Loos's interiors in Plzeň is part of the cultural development program for the period from 2009 to 2019. Plans include the creation of a guided tour route focusing on modern Plzeň architecture. In addition to Loos's work, it would present the development of bourgeois architecture from historicism to functionalism. This year, the city should complete an artistic crafts passport and a historical architectural survey of the apartment at Klatovská 110. These are materials necessary for the reconstruction. The interiors will require repairs in the coming years; a complete renovation of the building at Klatovská 19 is planned. According to earlier city plans, the Patton Memorial Museum is also expected to move into it.
Loos (1870 to 1933) is considered the most significant Central European architect of the early 20th century and a co-founder of modern purist architecture worldwide. His style is characterized by clean rectangular shapes, absence of ornaments, simple functional form, and noble materials.