Loos on Trial
Translated from American English by Eva Martina Strobl
A GENRE PICTURE OF THE 1920s
In early september 1928, Vienna police arrested the architect Adolf Loos under suspicion of child abuse. Two girls, eight and ten years old, accused Loos of having touched them inappropriately. Almost at the same time, the press got wind of the incident and orchestrated a public scandal that ended in a spectacular trial. The controversy surrounding the affair, though, was about more than just the question of »guilty or innocent«. In fact, the left and the right, the representatives of modernism and their conservative critics, opposed each other. Christopher Long has reconstructed the facts and with criminological sense describes the events surrounding the arrest and the trial of Adolf Loos.
Christopher Long is a professor of architecture and design history at the University of Texas at Austin. He researches, teaches, and writes about the history of European architecture from 1800 to the present day and its cultural, intellectual, political, and economic conditions. He has written numerous publications on Paul T. Frankl, Josef Frank and the Loos House, amongst others.
Original English manuscript available – we control worldwide rights!
A GENRE PICTURE OF THE 1920s
In early september 1928, Vienna police arrested the architect Adolf Loos under suspicion of child abuse. Two girls, eight and ten years old, accused Loos of having touched them inappropriately. Almost at the same time, the press got wind of the incident and orchestrated a public scandal that ended in a spectacular trial. The controversy surrounding the affair, though, was about more than just the question of »guilty or innocent«. In fact, the left and the right, the representatives of modernism and their conservative critics, opposed each other. Christopher Long has reconstructed the facts and with criminological sense describes the events surrounding the arrest and the trial of Adolf Loos.
Christopher Long is a professor of architecture and design history at the University of Texas at Austin. He researches, teaches, and writes about the history of European architecture from 1800 to the present day and its cultural, intellectual, political, and economic conditions. He has written numerous publications on Paul T. Frankl, Josef Frank and the Loos House, amongst others.
Original English manuscript available – we control worldwide rights!
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