Christopher Long: Thoughts on the Floor Plan - Spatial Concepts of A. Loose, O. Strnada, J. Frank, and R. Schindler

The Academy of Art and Design in Prague

invites you to a lecture

Christopher Long

Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas of Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank, and Rudolf Schindler

The lecture in English will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at 6:30 PM.
The Academy of Art and Design, Jan Palach Square 80, Prague 1, classroom 115

In the first decade of the 20th century, Vienna was not only a place for fruitful discussions about the use and significance of ornament. It was also linked to a significant discourse concerning ideas of space and movement within it. The lecture will deal with the work and thoughts of four original thinkers - Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank, and R.M. Schindler, and seek answers to the question of how each of them contributed to the modern conception of creating space.

Christopher Long is a professor of architectural and design history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Josef Frank: Life and Work (2002), Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (2007), and The Looshaus (in press).

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Thoughts on the Ground Plan: Spatial Ideas in Loos, Strnad, Frank, and Schindler

During the first decades of the last century, Vienna was a fertile ground not only for discussions about the use and meaning of ornament in architecture, but also an important discourse concerning ideas of space, movement, and procession. This lecture will examine the works and ideas of four seminal thinkers―Adolf Loos, Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank, and R. M. Schindler―and how each contributed to modern conceptions of space-making.



Christopher Long is professor of architectural and design history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Josef Frank: Life and Work (2002), Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (2007), and The Looshaus (forthcoming).