Architecture

Adolf Loos

1870–1933Local figure

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

Created here
Café Museum
Loos designed the café’s radically plain original interior in 1899.
Created here
Loos American Bar
Loos designed the bar and its space-expanding mirrored interior in 1908.
Created here
Looshaus
Loos designed the controversial commercial and residential building for the tailors Goldman & Salatsch.
Burial place
Vienna Central Cemetery
Vienna eventually gathered many of its musical immortals into one extraordinary neighborhood of graves: Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and both Johann Strausses lie close together in Group 32A. The arrangement creates a posthumous composers’ salon, while Strauss II’s monument adds carved dancers, a Danube mermaid and a bat recalling Die Fledermaus.

Prague: Winternitz Villa — He co-designed the villa, the last of his buildings completed during his lifetime.

These addresses are scattered across the city. Our routes and quests put them in an order that works.