Live stream tour of Adolf Loos’ Villa Winternitz

The nice people at the Czech Centre in London have been in touch to tell us about an online event they are holding on Thursday 18 June.

With most us not being able to travel the Czech centre are giving us a chance to travel to Prague with a live stream from the recently renovated Villa Winternitz designed by Adolf Loos in 1932.

Architect Adam Gebrian will guide you through the recently restored 1932 Prague Villa Winternitz, the last project of Adolf Loos, the Czech-born pioneer of modern architecture, revealing a powerful architectural concept still influential today and the tumultuous history of the villa and its owners.

Experience the overall effect of walking through a prime example of Loos’ Raumplan, an innovative spatial concept dividing a building into interconnected multi-level spaces.  Discover a complex interior structuring the space into a sequence of stepped areas including an impressive double-height living room, a dining room and a drawing room with interior wall cut-outs framing views into adjoining rooms.  This contrasts with the simple cubic shape and white, austere façade of the villa, divided only by terraces and windows and embodying the principles expounded by Loos in his seminal essay “Ornament and Crime”. 

Follow THIS LINK to find out more and to register .