Villa Müller: Revisiting The Work Of Adolf Loos

摘要

There is widespread agreement on the status of Villa Müller (Prague, 1930) asboth the final and the most complete example of Adolf Loos's Raumpian.However, in the interest of specificity, it is necessary to pause before coveringthe villa with labels. Loos himself never accorded the Raumpian a theoreticaltreatment in a dedicated essay. Indeed Loos never actually employed the term.An oblique reference, a footnote in a 1929 eulogy to the carpenter J. Veillich, istypically held to be the defining moment for the Raumpian concept