Steiner House
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St. Veit-Gasse 10
Vienna
Austria
coordinates:
48.1838799 16.2831707
Building names(s): Steiner House
Architect/Designer: Adolf Loos
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Completion date: 1910
Function: residential
getting there:By public transport: Use the underground line U4 (green) and change at Hietzing to the tram #58. Get off at Hummelgasse. The house is about two blocks away to the south.
-NOTE: THIS HOUSE IS A PRIVATE RESIDENCE –
Last modified: 30 April, 2011 | Suggested By LT
The Steiner house was designed for the painter Lilly Steiner and her husband Hugo. It is located in a Vienna suburb where the planning regulations were strong enough to have a direct impact on the final design.
Loos was a remarkable architect when working within the limits imposed by the shape of the site or external forces like the planning codes. The regulations only permitted a street front with one story and a dormer window (a window built in a sloping roof). The large window at the front brings light into the atelier of the painter, which was situated on the first level. The garden facade is three storied and with the use of the semi-circular metal-sheathed roof Loos manages to articulate the transition between the front and garden elevations.