1. Villa Muller (1928-30): Adolf Loos
The Villa Müller is located in Prague, Czech Republic. The building was commissioned by František Müller and his wife, Milada Müllerová. Mr. Müller was an engineer and co-owned a construction company called Kapsa and Müller. The company specialized in reinforced concrete, developing new construction techniques. The architect Karel Lhota set František Müller up with Loos to design the villa. In 1989, the house was turned over to the Müllers' daughter, Eva Maternová. She sold it to the City of Prague in 1995, who put it in the care of the City of Prague Museum. The house was restored in 1998 and finally, re-opened as a museum in 2000.
The Villa Müller is located in Prague, Czech Republic. The building was commissioned by František Müller and his wife, Milada Müllerová. Mr. Müller was an engineer and co-owned a construction company called Kapsa and Müller. The company specialized in reinforced concrete, developing new construction techniques. The architect Karel Lhota set František Müller up with Loos to design the villa. In 1989, the house was turned over to the Müllers' daughter, Eva Maternová. She sold it to the City of Prague in 1995, who put it in the care of the City of Prague Museum. The house was restored in 1998 and finally, re-opened as a museum in 2000.
Image Source: http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Czech%20Republic/Prague/The%20Villa%20M%FCller2. Villa Savoye (1929-31): Le Corbusier
The Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931. A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture, and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style.
Image Source: http://forums.intpcentral.com/showthread.php?25209-Beautiful-Buildings3. Villa Mairea (1937-39): Alvar Aalto
Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. Told by the family that they want an 'experimental house', Aalto seems to have treated the house as an opportunity to bring together all the themes that had been preoccupying him in his work to that point but had not been able to include them in actual buildings.
Image Source: http://www.designboom.com/history/aalto/villa.html4. Antonio Carlos Siza House (1976-78): Alvaro Siza
A building on an irregular corner lot, it appears inconspicuous on the outside. However the inside contains various masterful techniques. The floor plan evolves out of the two intersecting axes, which define the dynamic of the interior. The rooms are arranged around a patio according to their function. Varying room heights differentiate the meaning of individual areas. Playful treatment of exterior and interior: Some openings are placed on sightlines, which transition repeatedly between the interior and exterior space.
Image Source: http://www.elcroquis.es/Detail.aspx?articlesId=301885. Bordeaux House (1995-98): Rem Koolhaas
The house was designed to accommodate a man who was confined to a wheel chair after an automobile accident. Koolhaas describes the building as three houses because it has three separate sections layered on top of one another. The lowest part, Koolhaas says, is "a series of caverns carved out from the hill for the most intimate life of the family." The middle section is a smaller 3 x 3.5 meter (10 x 10.75 feet ) glass room where the wheelchair bound resident has his private living area. The entire room is an elevator platform which rises and lowers to other levels of the house. Bookshelves line one wall of the elevator shaft. The upper level, which Koolhaas calls the "top house," has separate areas for the husband and wife and for their children.
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