Adolf Loos's 1930 modernist villa in Střešovice — a pristine white cube on the outside, concealing the architect's celebrated 'Raumplan' within: a complex interior of split levels and varied ceiling heights, each room sized to its purpose and clad in rich materials. Loos, the great enemy of ornament, made the plain exterior a deliberate provocation against the decorated facades of his day. Now restored as a museum, it's visited by appointment. For architecture enthusiasts, it's a key monument of modernism — the clearest built demonstration of Loos's revolutionary ideas about space, hidden behind one of the most famously austere facades of the century.
Location
Nad Hradním vodojemem 14
Střešovice, Prague
Střešovice, Prague
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