Architect Baracco and Wright Architects

Architect Adolf Loos is taking a lakeside stroll in a small alpine village. The sky is blue and the lake a shimmering green mirror that doubles the clouds, mountains, church spires and rooftops. Loos is admiring the serenity of his surroundings when he rounds a bend and is confronted by the unexpected sight of a newly built, architect-designed villa. The effect is as if long fingernails have suddenly been raked down a chalkboard or the needle shunted off a spinning record. The tranquillity and cohesion of the setting have suddenly been ruptured. Describing this encounter in his seminal 1910 essay (simply entitled “Architecture”), Loos asks: “Why is it that any architect, good or