Adolf Loos's Dvořák mausoleum
In 1921 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos completed a plan for a mausoleum for the Austrian Czech art historian Max Dvořák, who had died earlier that year.[1] The mausoleum was never built.
In a 1910 essay, Architecture, Loos wrote that "...only a very small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: The tomb and the monument".[1]
Loos died in 1933. His own tomb was based on a design that he had sketched two years previously, consisting of a square of gray granite.[2]
Design
The mausoleum is shaped as a square chamber made of blocks of Swedish black
In his book Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, writer Joseph Masheck draws parallels between Loos's mausoleum and the work of later
Neil H. Donahue, in his book on art historian Wilhelm Worringer, Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer, describes the mausoleum as possessing an "innate severity of cubical massing serving an expressive purpose of spiritual gravity".[4]
Re-creation
A scale version of the mausoleum was realised by the British architect Sam Jacob as a temporary installation called A Very Small Part of Architecture commissioned by the
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-78076-423-8.
- ISBN 978-1-878271-80-8.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-262-06242-8.
- ISBN 0-271-01306-0.
- ^ Marrs, Colin (16 September 2016). "Sam Jacob recreates unbuilt Loos' tomb in Highgate Cemetery". Architects Journal. Retrieved 30 July 2021.