LOOS VILLA MUELLER

I have been looking more at the residential work of Adolph Loos.  This Transparent Drawing of the Mueller House, or Villa Mueller,  is a result.  I assembled this drawing from the multiple photographs and plans on Google Images.  I don’t think that any of the books that I have include this work.  In fact, I was not familiar with it until I saw it on the web.  It would be a good idea, if you have not done so already, to go to Google Images just so you can see what information is out there for a specific building.  Just type in Villa Mueller.

From my drawing, I feel that I have a far greater understanding of the exterior form.  There is a roof terrace and we can see the beginnings of the modernist and postmodern tendencies to frame views with openings in rooftop walls.  This is nothing more than a simple box.  Yet the spatial and form complexity is very rich.

However, there is always room for improvement.  So when I take another transparent look at this building in the future, I want to incorporate the interior volumes along with the exterior.  I have found that a clearer understanding of interior volumes can be accomplished with an axonometric.  Yet there is a compelling quality when you incorporate perspectival principals, as I did with the drawing above.