Loos and Schinkel: The Metropolis, the Individual and the Collective

Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austrian architect and, indeed, Loos himself made a direct reference to the importance of the German architect for the development of contemporary architecture and education. Rather than focussing on Loos¿s relation to Schinkel through a systematic analysis of projects, this book places the relation between the two master architects within a larger-frame comparative approach. It makes a parallel examination of Schinkel and Loos¿s strategies in regard to the metropolis or Großstadt. Referring to theories of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Camillo Sitte, Schmarsow and Merleau¿s Ponty, sets the two architects within their urban context - in Schinkel¿s case, it is a city on the verge on becoming the industrial metropolis; in the case of Loos, it is the fin-de-siecle world metropolis marked by Wagner, Kokoshska, and Freud. The book is divided into two sections, each consisting of two es