Villa Steiner, Vienna


Related person
Adolf Loos (architect)
Date
1910
Location
Europe->Austria->Wien->Vienna
Description
"As the authorities would only grant planning permission for a one-storey house with a converted mansard roof, while the clients wanted a comprehensive spatial programme, the compromise was this unusual piece of architecture. Loos arched a metal roof down to the ceiling of the ground floor at the front of the house, but turned it into a flat wood-and-cement roof at the apex. It was thus possible to develop the garden front on three storeys. The rear facade is smooth and symmetrical like the front; the two outer window axes protrude like projections." - Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. p 87.
Style/Period
1910s (1910 - 1919)
Modern
Material
coniferous trees
herbaceous plants
deciduous shrubs
deciduous trees