Habitar o real, compor o provável - enquadramento e sequência espacial nas villas de Adolf Loos

Abstract

The present thesis supports the construction of a concept of framing in architecture, interpreting its application in the work of architect Adolf Loos, particularly in his singlefamily houses. The work of this architect synthesizes the influences from the French Enlightenment, the features of the nineteenth-century Anglo-American cultural context and the conceptual developments of the European picturesque movement. By basing his work on the method of visual planning and by placing the empathic experience of the subject at the center of design thinking, Loos systematized a methodology of architectural framing aimed at the progressive suggestion of the idea of particularity.