PHILOSOPHY

“The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from

useful objects.”

Ornamentation is crime.

My architecture is not conceived in plan, but in spaces.

VILLA MULLER

Year of construction: 1928-1930

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Completed in the same year Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier in Paris

CONCEPT …

The composition of the interior spaces, mainly residential, the house is based on an entirely unique architectural thinking of Adolf Loos, on the principle of the spatial structure of the plane, called “RAUMPLAN ", which is reflected, among other things, by understanding the economy Loos and functionality in their designs applying for social housing. In designing the interior, Loos did not

act only as an architect, so did as a psychologist. This perspective was

beneficial as it made its creation environments for specific people with

their individual needs. The priority when designing the house was that it

was built for those who saw it from outside, but to those who lived within.

 Raumplan was Adolf Loos'effort to rethink the traditional plan-based

configuration of space within a predetermined volume.  Loos

believed that each room should be designed individually, with the

height most appropriate for it.  His house plans consisted of small, volumetric rooms connected by

short staircases.  In his search for a modern architecture, Loos was

looking beyond the idea of rethinking decorative languages ,

and to a rethinking of the composition of space.

RAUMPLAN …

INTERIORSSpatial planning was inside where Loos was more innovative. Villa Müller is Loos's view, the best application of spatial or "Raumplan":

"My architecture is not conceivable for drawings, but by spaces. I do not draw plans, facades or sections ... For me, the ground floor, first floor, there are ... Only continuous and interconnected spaces, rooms, corridors, terraces ... Each space requires a different height ... These spaces are connected so that the rise and fall not only imperceptible, but at the same time functional. "

Müller Villa, interior, 1930

Early work: Café Museum, Vienna, 1898-99

Steiner Haus, Vienna, 1910