Adolf Loos und die Idee des Ökonomischen

Adolf Loos wis­hed its­elf for its gra­ves­tone the words: “Loos, the world of red­un­dant work re­leased”. It is the pul­led sum­mary of a life's work, in which the idea of the eco­no­mic ob­viously in the cen­ter its work stands. Adolf Loos, “in prin­ciple against many Ar­bei­ten”war, ad­mit­ted once the fact that it“ is its moechte”.Dies of an al­most di­sea­sed thrif­ti­ness [ is ] and lea­der in sa­ving the con­fes­sion of a “Bo­he­mi­ens” one of the be­stan­ge­zo­ge­nen men of Vi­enna, which pre­fers marble and noble woods in its buil­dings of man­si­ons used. As its bio graphs al­re­ady de­ter­mi­ned, the Loos' idea of the eco­no­mic one went bey­ond a bare “con­cept of the thrif­ti­ness” far. The re­lease of hu­mans from red­un­dant work should give him li­berty “for the no­bler pos­si­bi­li­ties of the life”.

The plate of the Or­na­ment­has­sers, the Fama of “or­na­men­ta­tion and cri­mes” ob­struct Adolf Loos to today a more ob­jec­tive view of the ar­chi­tec­tu­ral theo­rist. Na­tu­rally its poin­ted ar­gu­men­ta­tion way cont­ri­bu­ted to it, but is it a goal of the avail­able work, ano­ther, of opening a new per­spec­tive on its theo­re­ti­cal work. When is to serve star­ting point and working hy­po­the­sis its sket­ched grave in­scrip­tion to win in hope, a com­pre­hen­sive and con­stant term for the un­der­stan­ding of its theory.