Adolf Loos's Dvořák mausoleum

In 1921 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos completed a plan for a mausoleum for the Austrian Czech art historian Max Dvořák, who had died earlier that year.

His own tomb was based on a design that he had sketched two years previously, consisting of a square of gray granite.

[3] In his book Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, writer Joseph Masheck draws parallels between Loos's mausoleum and the work of later post-modern architects and artists including the brick installations of Carl Andre, the "gray prisms" of sculptor Robert Morris and the sculptures of Tony Smith, the last of which was an influence on I. M.

[3] Neil H. Donahue, in his book on art historian Wilhelm Worringer, Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer, describes the mausoleum as possessing an "innate severity of cubical massing serving an expressive purpose of spiritual gravity".

[4] A scale version of the mausoleum was realised by the British architect Sam Jacob as a temporary installation called A Very Small Part of Architecture commissioned by the Architecture Foundation at London's Highgate Cemetery in September 2016.