Architect：No Architects

Location：Prague, Czechia; | ;

Project Year：2022

Category：Private Houses

The southern slopes of the first large suburb in the capital city of Prague have always attracted people to posh residential living. However, the romanticizing delirium of typical construction with steep roofs, ostentatious stone soffits and superfluous brick cladding used to be a laughing stock for modernist architects in their time, who dreamed of strip windows, flat roofs and central heating. Many prophets of the glorious industrial world did not give them hope for more than a generation.

We don't even know the authors of the original generic nostalgia of late First Republic villas, unlike many avant-garde modernists, but even after more than a century we understand them. People built houses here in historicizing styles simply because they wanted to feel like they had always been there. So that they and their households could more easily put down roots here.