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16 LANDHAUS SPANNER BY ADOLF LOOS Year 1924 Status Modified Material Waste Cardboard Hot Glue Scale 1:50 Model maker Johannes Fritzenwallner Adolf Loos was born in 1870 in Brno, Czech Republic. He worked as an architect and writer in Austria, France and the Czech Republic.1 His concept of the Raumplan, which he materialised in several of his buildings in Vienna, Paris and Prague, became world famous. The Landhaus Spanner was planned and realized by Loos and his assistant Leopold Fischer in 1924. The house is situated in the vineyards of Gumpoldskirchen, a village near the south border of Vienna. The ruin of a house from 1897 was used as the foundation for the newly built countryside house.2 The house has two floors and a tower. The ground floor consists of the service rooms and the living and dining room with access to the garden. The first floor has three private rooms and a room for the staff. The tower above the first floor contains a room with access to the roof terrace. Today, a gabled roof, in place of the roof terrace, sits on top of the building. The building is made of bricks, and the upper floors were covered in green and white painted wood.3 1 Architekturzentrum Wien (Ed.) (2016): Architektur in Österreich im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Zürich: Park Books. 413. 2 Rukschcio, Burkhardt; Schachel, Roland (1987): Adolf Loos. Leben und Werk. Salzburg, Wien: Residenz Verlag. 582. 3 Bock, Ralf (2009): Adolf Loos. Leben und Werke 1870-1933. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 224.