Villa Müller: Adolf Loos

Abstract The Villa Müller, completed in Prague in 1930, is among Adolf Loos’ signature works and one of the epochal buildings of the modern movement. With its tight, interlocking volumes positioned on multiple levels, the house remains perhaps the best illustration of Loos’ Raumplan, or space‐plan, conception. It is a tour de force of modern space‐making, an essay on how to foster complex volumes and how to connect them. It is the key building of Loos’ later years, a summation of all he sought to achieve as an architect and a précis of his idiosyncratic ideas of form and living. It has become one of the most oft‐studied and discussed buildings of those years, an object lesson in three‐dimensional design.