Walter Loos

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Walter Loos (born August 5, 1905 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † March 11, 1974 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austrian architect , furniture designer and emigrant . He was married to Fridl Steininger , whom he met in Vienna in the early 1920s.

Life

From 1921 to 1927 Walter Loos studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Technical University of Vienna under Josef Hoffmann and Josef Frank, among others . In 1925 and 1926 he stayed in Paris , where he met Adolf Loos , with whom he was not related. After his return he worked as a publicist . His first houses were built in Würzburg in collaboration with Peter Feile .

He built two buildings in the Werkbundsiedlung in Lainz . Several modern residential buildings were then built in Vienna. In 1933 he built the house, which was awarded at the 5th Triennale di Milano, for the wife of the composer Alexander Zemlinsky at Kaasgrabengasse 24 in the XIX district of Vienna ( Döbling / Grinzing ).

In 1932 Loos was elected to the board of the Austrian Werkbund and in 1937 he was appointed Austrian delegate of CIAM .

When Austria was annexed, he and his wife emigrated to New York via London in March 1938 for political reasons . Due to a lack of work permits in the USA , they went to Argentina in 1940, where his wife was successful as a fashion designer and he specialized in furniture design. His younger half-brother Hermann followed him in 1950 and worked with him.

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SURNAME Loos, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1974
Place of death Buenos Aires