MACHINE

Josef Hoffman

Koloman Moser

Wiener Werkstätte Zebra Cabinet 1904

Henry van de Velde

sauciere

1903

PRUITT IGOE from Koyaanisqatsi

My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces. For me, there is no ground floor, first floor etc.... For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces etc. Stories merge and spaces relate to each other. Every space requires a different height: the dining room is surely higher than the pantry, thus the ceilings are set at different levels. To join these spaces in such a way that the rise and fall are not only unobservable but also practical, in this I see what is for others the great secret, although it is for me a great matter of course. Coming back to your question, it is just this spatial interaction and spatial austerity that thus far I have best been able to realise in Dr Müller's house"

Adolf Loos, Shorthand record of a conversation in Plzeň (Pilsen), 1930

Known as an innovative landmark of early modernist architecture, the Villa Muller embodies Loo's ideas of economy and functionality. The central idea to Loos' design was the concept of Raumplan, what is understood to be the three-dimensional planning of spaces as opposed to 'plan-stacking'. Adolf emphasized the heights of each room according to their function, making each height slightly different from eachother, especially when the shift from public space to private space occurs.