Raumplan and Contemporary Architecture

The book  focuses on the work of Adolf Loos in a broader context that leads to contemporary architectural developments. The individual authors of the international collective have focused on his ideas and work, as well as on examples of direct and less obvious connections to his work. The main unifying element is the link to space in architecture, which became a key point of architectural thinking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book includes examples of Loos' work, as well as texts by architectural historians and architects who have long been devoted to Loos' work theoretically (Hermann Czech, Petr Domanický, Jana Laubová, Christopher Long, Dan Merta, Martina Mertová, Maria Szadkowska, Yoshio Sakurai, Filip Šenk, William Tozer) and practicing architects who work with and further develop the concepts and ideas of architectural space (Alberto Campo Baeza, Sou Fujimoto, Momoyo Kaijima, Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen). The new publication, which was initiated by the Architectura association and published in cooperation with Akontext and the Technical University of Liberec, is a direct follow-up to the online exhibition held in a limited form during the lockdown at the Fragner Gallery on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 in Brno - 23 August 1933 in Kalksburg near Vienna). The graphic design was once again undertaken by sculptor and graphic artist Jiří Příhoda.