Haus Steiner - Vienna, Austria
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N 48° 11.032 E 016° 16.993
33U E 595380 N 5337532
This house built by Adolf Loos in 1910 is located in St. Veit-Gasse 10 in the 13th district of Vienna, where several villas built by Loos still can be found.
Waymark Code: WM7VG6
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 12/07/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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"As the authorities would only grant planning permission for a one-storey house with a converted mansard roof, while the clients wanted a comprehensive spatial programme, the compromise was this unusual piece of architecture. Loos arched a metal roof down to the ceiling of the ground floor at the front of the house, but turned it into a flat wood-and-cement roof at the apex. It was thus possible to develop the garden front on three storeys. The rear facade is smooth and symmetrical like the front; the two outer window axes protrude like projections."

from: Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. p87.

"Built in the same year as the essay Architektur was published (1910), Hugo Steiner's house is one of Loos's most significant and well-known works. Because of its severe and advanced modernity of form it has been adopted in the histories of contemporary architecture as an example of the phase of transition and an anticipation of the language of Rationalism.

from: Benedetto Gravagnuolo. Adolf Loos: Theory and Works. p139.

Wikipedia about Adolf Loos: (visit link)

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Der Auftraggeber hatte den Wunsch, eine Vielzahl von Räumen zu bekommen. Adolf Loos versuchte ein Maximum an Raum zu gewinnen, ohne die Bauvorschriften zu verletzen. Im Hietzinger Villenviertel durften die Häuser straßenseitig nur ein Geschoss über Niveau aufweisen. Über dem Erdgeschoss, äußerstenfalls über dem Hochparterre, musste die Dachzone beginnen. In seiner Lösung wirkt die Straßenfassade eingeschossig, denn über dem Hochparterre wölbt sich bereits das halbtonnenförmige Blechdach mit großen Mansardenfenstern. In diesem Dach befinden sich zwei Geschosse. An der gartenseitigen Fassade ist die Dreigeschossigkeit des Gebäudes ablesbar. Adolf Loos gelang trotz der Bauvorschriften ein geschlossen wirkender Baukörper. Er verwirklichte hier seine "Einraumidee": Von dem Eingang in die Küche und jenem in die Diele führen zwei Gänge in den einen Wohnraum des Hauses. Eine Wendeltreppe verbindet alle Geschosse miteinander. Das Haus steht seit 1996 unter Denkmalschutz.

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City, State or City, Country: Vienna, Austria

Year Built: 1910

Architect: Adolf Loos

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