2024-11-24T02:09:16-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/102652790/win-two-memoirs-from-adolf-loos-family Justine Testado 2014-06-27T18:56:00-04:00 >2014-06-27T19:33:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/y7/y7v6rj3sxg3g4p13.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Time for another book giveaway! We've got two great titles from <a href="http://doppelhouse.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DoppelHouse Press</a>. The first is the first English edition of<em> Adolf Loos, A Private Portrait</em> by Claire Beck Loos, who was the last wife of Austrian modern architect Adolf Loos. The 140-page biography was originally published in German in 1936 to help pay for Loos' tombstone.</p><p>The second title is <em>Escape Home, Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss</em>, a memoir about Vienna-born architectural designer and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Charles Paterson, who was the nephew of Claire Loos. Charles co-wrote the family memoir with his daughter Carrie Paterson.</p><p><strong>For a chance to win both titles, fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?usp=drive_web&amp;formkey=dHg1M0xIaVVoaEtVUUhDcXh1UkVjNmc6MA#gid=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this survey</a> by Wednesday, July 2nd. Two winners will be selected at random. Good luck!</strong></p><p>Read on for more about each book:</p><p><strong><em>Adolf Loos, A Private Portrait</em></strong></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/u2/u2q3jm8sxplbyv17.jpg"></p><p>"Lively and often humorous vignettes provide 'Snapshots' of the last years of Loos&rsquo; life (1929-1933), and reveal the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienn...</p>