Now I understand why Czech Republic was shattered... they were at the top of European Culture... I am watching now your video on the Tugendhat Villa... Thanks for taking the time and effort to relive this vital architecture.
I'm huge fan of Loos work and specially the interiors. Find good information about it is difficult so thank you very much for doing this video. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.
very surprising architecture ! thank you for sharing this . I get the whole vibe creating of the spaces ! It's like entering different worlds in one place . It has a lot of privacy and cocooning quality ! It's certainly not a multimillion bling bling house like those in hollywood ! thank God there are people with great taste indeed !
You should book your tour in advance. When I went some twenty years ago, the tour was limited to ten people at a time, and happened just half a dozen times a day.
Very nice series, and very interesting and special buildings and places. Much appreciated, thank you for taking us along on these exclusive visits! I only wish the background music (on this and the Tugendhat Villa at least) would be less intrusive, and more in line with the buildings' style. Also the music volume is way too loud. So perhaps just cut the background music all together?
An aesthetically challenging (to say the least) mix of Brutalist and De Stijl with some dining chairs that would be right at home in Casa Batlló. I wanted to like this so much, but am really struggling. Getting a vibe of a Soviet prison for the wealthy or a school for the Hitler Youth. Would like to see it in person on a sunny day plus at night to see what the lighting is like. Would also love to see the balcony and roof deck furnished and landscaped- maybe with a simple water feature. Thanks for the tour. Had never heard of this place. Regards from Indiana!
I share your impressions. I know that it's hard to judge space in two dimensions, but I don't feel it to be welcoming and embracing. Instead of mysterious, as say, a Luis Barragán interior, it feels labyrinthine and disorienting. Besides the large, open room near the entrance, you don't find the modernist flow of space that you find even in Wright's Prairie Houses, not to mention Le Corbusier's or Van der Rohe's interiors. Frankly, I was expecting more. More from less? Of course, the caveat is that I have never visited in person. My impression is limited to videos.
I don't quite understand your comment specially referring to Casa Batlló... which is almost completely ORNAMENTAL.. Our occidental culture is decaying and might well be your struggle.
Very informative and interesting about an architectural landmark previously unknown to me, but the background music of the video was distracting and annoying.
The discreet, recessed entry, the compressed vestibule and entry spaces opening into a generous space, and the elaborate manipulation of space overall are reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright. In other ways, they are, of course, very different architects, but Wright, like Loos, designed space.
Beautiful and valuable footage for those of us who will not be visiting Prague any time soon. As many have commented, the wonderful content of this film is marred by easily-fixable issues with production values. The bizarre lack of synchronization between image and soundtrack is a constant distraction from the content. I finally realized that this is because the original narrative is in fact not in English. The film would be far better served by subtitles than this disorienting lack of coordination. More importantly, please have English content reviewed by a native speaker. "Meeted" and other non-English locutions destroy the credibility of the narrative. For all the narrators remarks on taste the comments from the global UA-cam audience appear to agree that the musical track is sub par. Perhaps use Schoenberg instead? Nevertheless Loos rises above these simple-to-correct flaws. How much we have lost in the 21st century.
MJ was king of pop, BAD was loaded w hits But Joshua was Peak U2 and 1988 was a year that alternative rock in Europe and US was the red hot musical category, not pop. ALL the kids were into Depeche Mode, Cure, Duran Duran & were filling arenas . MJ last album Thriller was released 6 yrs prior. In that time the market changed. Had he released say 1986 I think he would have won.
Hi! Very nice video, Adolf Loos has inspired many younger architects. I just want to ask about quote "I don't live on the facade, and I don't do it for the people who walk by. I do it for the people who ordered it, and I do it so that they can live well inside..." Is this something that Loos said, explicitly?
Loos used ornament alright. He ornamented with superfluous spatial complexity, material grain, desperately trying to fill the void of memory or story. Geometric complexity of a Minecraft game
Funny how the two unassuming villas on the front and on the side both look way better, more livable, more durable and less outdated than this "masterpiece"
You could not build this house in any community with a planning board in the USA. Everyone would complain and force it to get along with the neighborhood. The house is usually the most significantly and expensive asset people own and they are fiercely protective of real estate values today. No one who builds a large building in NYC or in any major city gets to do what they want most of the time. I recall one women in an Urban Design program I took at Columbia who wanted to take all volition from architects and render all design a matter for bureaucrats. She couldn't design - she could only think regulations. And so much is decided on the basis of regs already. Ayn Rands' Rourke was an idiotic criminal brat and would not have escaped prison time even in his day. And I agree with those who think taste is the most subjective and self-deluding of concepts. It's almost impossible to defend rationally. Architecture is very heavily influenced by planners and boards. And apparently European are used to that. They have so many historic towns that are zealously preserved. The statement "I don't live on the outside" is an expression of incredible aristocratic arrogance. Maybe he just didn't know how to deal with a facade and should have stuck to interior design? The ivy at least softens the stark exterior. The building looks industrial. Did Loos ever design a building with an interesting facade? It's a guess that the house was large but also built on a tight budget. The marble and period fireplace probably took a big bite out it. The interiors aren't as interesting as F.L.Wrights and that brick fireplace shown early on looked like something in a cheap bungalow. The renaissance fireplace is splendid and all the rest of the room can do is bow to it. But he also couldn't afford to make an interior equal to it. It's also a terrible site with the sound of traffic constantly below. It is also the most unimaginative and uninteresting roof deck. Not even any kind of paving but asphalt? But what could you look at but the river of auto traffic below? I watched the first few minutes and will come back when i cool off. I think it's a turkey and not as graceful or elegant as the Villa Savoye.
I don't get it, lots of beautiful materials and clever details but it looks like an awkward place to live, a great place for one to fall and crack their skull, especially in connection with "entertaining". Fine video though, thanks for that.
Horrible modernist building. The supporting structure of this edifice is sheer snobish idealism. True beauty is completely eliminated. Generations of architects (like this one) have been brainwashed into believing these buildings are beautiful, but of course, the "untrained" eye can see beyond this nonsense.
This is a small, secluded and pleasant villa with a fantastic interior, just because it vaguely resembles what you mentally associate with brutalism does not make it aesthetically compromised.
Looks like a Gestapo "Safe house" Boring and dull with no real imagination, not enough generous windows for more light, ugly childish furniture, mix matched and ugly yet again ! sounds like an arrogant architect too ! All a matter of opinion, mine! This dialogue reminds me of the garbage verbage architects and artists have to use to elevate the mundane to a false elevation of the art or architecture in this case. A boring marketing tool !
"Interesting facade " made me laughing for couple minutes.. you may complain about limit of sunshine to the interiors but facade doesn't has to be interesting, this is not public building that people come and take photos...this not designated such like stupid Hollywood multimillion trashes . It's well design for it's own decade.. much thank to narrator 🎉
Who would come to the idea of calling such a piece of utter nonsense masterpiece? It does not differentiate from all those ridiculously boring heartless buildings that fill our cities everywhere else since the germ of Bauhaus started to emerge a four-year-old could design something better instead of blowing all the principles of architecture in the wind and designing something just to be modernist while ending up building the same white cube everyone else did Modernism has failed altogether
I love good arc design and enjoy videos like this. My personal opinion is that this house is simple and ugly. Poor design and very bad taste in furniture. I guess it was build and decorated to be different and to get attention. This is not a house where a family can live and enjoy life. Very cold and no character.
What a fascinating tour...
Thank you for this and your other videos. Absolutely magnificient.
Now I understand why Czech Republic was shattered... they were at the top of European Culture... I am watching now your video on the Tugendhat Villa...
Thanks for taking the time and effort to relive this vital architecture.
I'm huge fan of Loos work and specially the interiors. Find good information about it is difficult so thank you very much for doing this video. Greetings from São Paulo, Brazil.
This is such a great vid. Your passion is infectious….
A very interesting visit! Thank you.
fantastically filmed presentation, thank you
very surprising architecture ! thank you for sharing this . I get the whole vibe creating of the spaces ! It's like entering different worlds in one place . It has a lot of privacy and cocooning quality !
It's certainly not a multimillion bling bling house like those in hollywood ! thank God there are people with great taste indeed !
Excellent- thank you for introducing me to original content
thank for this - now it is on my must-visit list for the next time when I'm in Prague.
You should book your tour in advance. When I went some twenty years ago, the tour was limited to ten people at a time, and happened just half a dozen times a day.
Very nice series, and very interesting and special buildings and places. Much appreciated, thank you for taking us along on these exclusive visits!
I only wish the background music (on this and the Tugendhat Villa at least) would be less intrusive, and more in line with the buildings' style. Also the music volume is way too loud. So perhaps just cut the background music all together?
Thank You for this tour!
An aesthetically challenging (to say the least) mix of Brutalist and De Stijl with some dining chairs that would be right at home in Casa Batlló. I wanted to like this so much, but am really struggling. Getting a vibe of a Soviet prison for the wealthy or a school for the Hitler Youth. Would like to see it in person on a sunny day plus at night to see what the lighting is like. Would also love to see the balcony and roof deck furnished and landscaped- maybe with a simple water feature. Thanks for the tour. Had never heard of this place. Regards from Indiana!
I share your impressions. I know that it's hard to judge space in two dimensions, but I don't feel it to be welcoming and embracing. Instead of mysterious, as say, a Luis Barragán interior, it feels labyrinthine and disorienting. Besides the large, open room near the entrance, you don't find the modernist flow of space that you find even in Wright's Prairie Houses, not to mention Le Corbusier's or Van der Rohe's interiors. Frankly, I was expecting more. More from less? Of course, the caveat is that I have never visited in person. My impression is limited to videos.
I don't quite understand your comment specially referring to Casa Batlló... which is almost completely ORNAMENTAL..
Our occidental culture is decaying and might well be your struggle.
Brutalism started in the 50s, this building is pretty typical example of modernism/functionalism and has been built in 1930.
I thought this man is advertising some type of depression related issue. It took a few seconds to realize he's the host. A smile helps.
Nice tour of this amazing house. Wish the music were eliminated, though: annoying and inappropriate.
Very informative and interesting about an architectural landmark previously unknown to me, but the background music of the video was distracting and annoying.
Stunning
The person narrating would make an amazing real estate agent.
as irritating as an estate agent
There s a lot of F.L.Wright similarities. He also liked the compresion - expantion play with interiors.
This is my opinion of a dream house. The low furniture and the yellow silk drapes really did it for me.
More Loos
More architecture;
Less dude in black waving his face & arms in our face
The discreet, recessed entry, the compressed vestibule and entry spaces opening into a generous space, and the elaborate manipulation of space overall are reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright. In other ways, they are, of course, very different architects, but Wright, like Loos, designed space.
important architectural gem but this house gives haunted villa vibes. that quarantine space is creepy
Great video ı used it tı get more information for my 102 jury😊
Beautiful and valuable footage for those of us who will not be visiting Prague any time soon. As many have commented, the wonderful content of this film is marred by easily-fixable issues with production values. The bizarre lack of synchronization between image and soundtrack is a constant distraction from the content. I finally realized that this is because the original narrative is in fact not in English. The film would be far better served by subtitles than this disorienting lack of coordination. More importantly, please have English content reviewed by a native speaker. "Meeted" and other non-English locutions destroy the credibility of the narrative. For all the narrators remarks on taste the comments from the global UA-cam audience appear to agree that the musical track is sub par. Perhaps use Schoenberg instead? Nevertheless Loos rises above these simple-to-correct flaws. How much we have lost in the 21st century.
MJ was king of pop, BAD was loaded w hits But Joshua was Peak U2 and 1988 was a year that alternative rock in Europe and US was the red hot musical category, not pop. ALL the kids were into Depeche Mode, Cure, Duran Duran & were filling arenas . MJ last album Thriller was released 6 yrs prior. In that time the market changed. Had he released say 1986 I think he would have won.
Porque no coincide el sonido del relator con la filamcion ? y menos con la traduccion. gracias-
Hi! Very nice video, Adolf Loos has inspired many younger architects.
I just want to ask about quote "I don't live on the facade, and I don't do it for the people who walk by. I do it for the people who ordered it, and I do it so that they can live well inside..."
Is this something that Loos said, explicitly?
What about the child raping thing?
Im wondering the same thing, cant find any reference for it online
The only people I ever hear say "good taste" does not exist are people who don't have especially unique or interesting taste themselves.
Very distracting, overbearing background music. Audio not synchronised.
good!!
Loos used ornament alright. He ornamented with superfluous spatial complexity, material grain, desperately trying to fill the void of memory or story. Geometric complexity of a Minecraft game
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Funny how the two unassuming villas on the front and on the side both look way better, more livable, more durable and less outdated than this "masterpiece"
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The ghastly music made it quite difficult to finish watching the video. As for the house, it looks more like a hostel than a home...
Jeez, philistine much?
@@tranzco1173 Right about the music though...
You could not build this house in any community with a planning board in the USA. Everyone would complain and force it to get along with the neighborhood. The house is usually the most significantly and expensive asset people own and they are fiercely protective of real estate values today. No one who builds a large building in NYC or in any major city gets to do what they want most of the time. I recall one women in an Urban Design program I took at Columbia who wanted to take all volition from architects and render all design a matter for bureaucrats. She couldn't design - she could only think regulations. And so much is decided on the basis of regs already.
Ayn Rands' Rourke was an idiotic criminal brat and would not have escaped prison time even in his day.
And I agree with those who think taste is the most subjective and self-deluding of concepts. It's almost impossible to defend rationally. Architecture is very heavily influenced by planners and boards. And apparently European are used to that. They have so many historic towns that are zealously preserved.
The statement "I don't live on the outside" is an expression of incredible aristocratic arrogance. Maybe he just didn't know how to deal with a facade and should have stuck to interior design? The ivy at least softens the stark exterior. The building looks industrial. Did Loos ever design a building with an interesting facade? It's a guess that the house was large but also built on a tight budget. The marble and period fireplace probably took a big bite out it.
The interiors aren't as interesting as F.L.Wrights and that brick fireplace shown early on looked like something in a cheap bungalow. The renaissance fireplace is splendid and all the rest of the room can do is bow to it. But he also couldn't afford to make an interior equal to it. It's also a terrible site with the sound of traffic constantly below. It is also the most unimaginative and uninteresting roof deck. Not even any kind of paving but asphalt? But what could you look at but the river of auto traffic below?
I watched the first few minutes and will come back when i cool off. I think it's a turkey and not as graceful or elegant as the Villa Savoye.
Perhaps the inhabitabts had indoor plants, pets, and little feet.😊
Terrible music and sound!
I don't get it, lots of beautiful materials and clever details but it looks like an awkward place to live, a great place for one to fall and crack their skull, especially in connection with "entertaining". Fine video though, thanks for that.
I can see the Japanese influence.
I had a similar thought, especially when the garden is in view.
loos was the one who said : "ornaments are crime", today that means he was an idiot.
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Great house, botched video
¡Extraordinaria!
A bit creepy, it needs people (but I would go to see it). I don't think I could get well in that depressing quarantine room
Horrible modernist building. The supporting structure of this edifice is sheer snobish idealism. True beauty is completely eliminated.
Generations of architects (like this one) have been brainwashed into believing these buildings are beautiful, but of course, the "untrained" eye can see beyond this nonsense.
Have you visited? The house is truly enchanting.
This is a small, secluded and pleasant villa with a fantastic interior, just because it vaguely resembles what you mentally associate with brutalism does not make it aesthetically compromised.
@@Doria6 Eloquently put.
Looks like a Gestapo "Safe house" Boring and dull with no real imagination, not enough generous windows for more light, ugly childish furniture, mix matched and ugly yet again ! sounds like an arrogant architect too ! All a matter of opinion, mine! This dialogue reminds me of the garbage verbage architects and artists have to use to elevate the mundane to a false elevation of the art or architecture in this case. A boring marketing tool !
How many informative videos are ruined by stupid background music?
very "prairie school" in the constant exhoing of rectangles of the low and wide proportions. especially the interior
amazing villa...and a great commentator...Gebrian... but a nasty voice over
"Interesting facade " made me laughing for couple minutes.. you may complain about limit of sunshine to the interiors but facade doesn't has to be interesting, this is not public building that people come and take photos...this not designated such like stupid Hollywood multimillion trashes . It's well design for it's own decade.. much thank to narrator 🎉
Who would come to the idea of calling such a piece of utter nonsense masterpiece? It does not differentiate from all those ridiculously boring heartless buildings that fill our cities everywhere else since the germ of Bauhaus started to emerge a four-year-old could design something better instead of blowing all the principles of architecture in the wind and designing something just to be modernist while ending up building the same white cube everyone else did
Modernism has failed altogether
I love good arc design and enjoy videos like this. My personal opinion is that this house is simple and ugly. Poor design and very bad taste in furniture. I guess it was build and decorated to be different and to get attention. This is not a house where a family can live and enjoy life. Very cold and no character.
What an ugly building! Looks like a warehouse, unfit for humans.
Horrible music overpowers the text, I quit watching
Dude needs to get out more.
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