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Heinz Emigholz: Architecture as Autobiography

Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:30 p.m. Loos Ornamental
Heinz Emigholz (Austria/Germany, 2006–2007)

Heinz Emigholz in Person


As we went to press, Emigholz was putting the final touches on Loos Ornamental, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February. While in the style of Schindler’s Houses, Loos Ornamental is a darker film. Famed for his radical rejection of gratuitous decoration, the Austrian architect Adolf Loos died in 1933 in a dead-end Europe. Twenty-seven of his existing buildings and interiors in Vienna, Paris, and the Czech Republic are meticulously revealed in the film, which also attests to Emigholz’s ongoing fascination with the intersection of ornamentation and modern construction.

• (72 mins, Color, 35mm, From Amour Fou Filmproduktion)