Marcha Villa

C013

A design by Bohuslav Fuchs was used for the construction of a villa for Jaroslav Marcha, a writer, journalist and politician, on the corner of Lerchova and Kampelíkova streets in 1923. This three-story building is, like the nearby villas designed by Fuchs for the "Family" housing cooperative, proof of the architect's search for his own means of expression. The geometrical segmentation of the facade by means of ledges, sills and pillars draws on the late stage of Prague Cubism, which had already embraced the purist ideas; however, the hipped roof with bays and the cumbersome mass of the building refer to historicism.

 

Name
Marcha Villa

Date
1922 – 1923

Architect
Bohuslav Fuchs

Trail
Masaryk Quarter 1918–1945

Code
C013

Type
Residential house, villa

Address
Lerchova 265/29, (Stránice), Brno, Střed

Public transport
Kampelíkova (TROL 35, 39)
Heinrichova (TRAM 4)


GPS
49°11'53.673"N, 16°35'1.752"E

Literature
Rostislav Švácha, Bohuslav Fuchs, Domov, 1985, p. 4–7
Zdeněk Kudělka, Počátky architektonické tvorby Bohuslava Fuchse, Sborník prací filosofické fakulty brněnské univerzity F 8, 1964