Adolf Loos 150 - international symposium

Preceding building of MCMA in Brno, Preslova 53 (conference day)

Bauer's lodge at the Brno exhibition center (workshop)

A two-day symposium in honor of the Brno native and world architect, whose birth anniversary is celebrated this year with 150 years, will include a conference and a workshop. The conference will feature prominent domestic and foreign scholars recalling the life and work of this humanist and architect, as well as the Czech traces of Loos's students and followers. The second day of the symposium will be more practical - there will be a presentation of examples of the restoration of Loos's interiors in Plzeň and Prague with the participation of creators. Together with representatives of the Brno fair and exhibition and the Magistrate of the City of Brno, there will be a discussion on the possibilities of restoration directly in the Loos hall of Bauer's lodge.

Wed, October 21, 2020
International conference, Methodological Center of Modern Architecture in Brno
9:00 - opening
Block I. 150 Years of Adolf Loos
9:15 - Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin)

Adolf Loos: raumplan, promenade, and significance
10:00 - Rainald Franz (MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna)

“Beware of Josef Hoffmann” vs. “Loos, of whose qualities I naturally respect” – Observations on the relationship between the two honorees in their approaches to design and ornament
10:20 - Elana Shapira (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)

Perspectives of Europeanism: Adolf Loos and his Jewish clients
10:40 - coffee break
11:00 - Ralf Bock (Vienna)

Adolf Loos – Sustainable in the 21st Century – A Lonely Warrior of the 20th Century
11:20 - Andreas Vass, Erich Hubmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)

The Unknown and Unimplemented: Loos's Project for Friedrich Boskovits
11:40 - Jana Kořínková (Brno University of Technology)

The Implementation of Adolf Loos for the Hrušovany Sugar Refinery a.s. and its President Viktor Rytíř von Bauer-Rohrfeld
12:00 - lunch

Block II. Adolf Loos and His Followers
1:00 PM - Markus Kristan (Albertina Museum, Vienna)

Adolf Loos’s Lectures at the Seminar of His Architectural School
1:20 PM - Alena Havlíková (Palacký University Olomouc)

Adolf Loos: Meine Bauschule
1:40 PM - Petr Svoboda (National Heritage Institute)

Loos's followers and their work in the territory of the Czech Republic
2:00 PM - Vladimír Šlapeta (Brno University of Technology)

Jan Víšek and Jaroslav Grunt
2:20 PM - coffee break
2:40 PM - Ladislav Zikmund-Lender (Brno University of Technology)

Raumplan or Raumform? Heinrich Kulka and architects of the Vienna School in Eastern Bohemia
3:00 PM - Petr Domanický (West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň)

Contributions of the West Bohemian Gallery in Plzeň to the Knowledge, Preservation, and Presentation of Adolf Loos's Work 2010–2020
3:20 PM - David Voda (Olomouc)

Starting Points and Results of the Heritage Restoration of the Müller Villa in Olomouc (2012–2019)
3:40 PM - end of the conference
5:00 PM - tour of the Stiassni villa in Brno – traces of Adolf Loos in the work of Ernst Wiesner

Thu, October 22, 2020
10 AM - 3 PM – workshop, Loos Hall, Bauer's Lodge

Possibilities of solving the heritage restoration of the so-called Loos Hall in Bauer's Lodge in Brno
The expert workshop should outline potential opportunities for heritage restoration and use of Bauer's Lodge in Brno, whose interiors were designed by Adolf Loos for Viktor Bauer. The best-preserved part is the dining room, which could thus become a representative space reminding of the personality and work of Adolf Loos in Brno. The uniqueness of the space is multiplied by the fact that it is the only preserved and partially publicly accessible work in Brno at all. The aim of the workshop is to encourage professional discussion leading to permanent and sustainable possibilities for the use of the hall and the entire building, and subsequently to the method of heritage restoration of the interior. This will be based on examples of various approaches of both good and poor practices of restoration and presentation of Loos's work in the Czech lands.
The following contributors are in negotiation: David Cysař (Winternitz Villa), Lenka Štěpánková (BVV), Jindřich Chatrný and Dagmar Černoušková (Museum of the City of Brno), David Voda and Michal Sborwitz (Müller Villa in Olomouc), Marie Szadkowska (Müller Villa in Prague), Karel Zoch and Ludvík Grym (restoration of Loos's interiors in Plzeň, Bendova 10 and Klatovská 19 project), Rostislav Koryčánek (curator of the Hofmann House in Brtnice), Iveta Černá (director of the Tugendhat Villa), Martin Zedníček (OPP Magistrate of the City of Brno), Aleš Kozák (ProPamátky).