Bohuslav Fuchs, already a renowned architect, decided to build his own villa near the Czech Officers' Quarter in Žabovřesky in the second half of the 1920s.
The two-storey villa forms an urban complex with the neighboring house on the corner of Hvězdárenská and Tůmova streets. The twin opposite staircases splitting the cubic mass of the structure into two parts with different height levels is the key layout feature. The main entrance from Hvězdárenská Street is linked to the staircase providing access to the architect's studio and office on the first floor. The spiral staircase at the back connects the residential area on the ground floor to the library on the gallery, the private second floor and the roof terrace. Fuchs emphasized the cutting-edge technical furnishings of the house, such as the Frankfurt type kitchen designed by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. This room is equipped with the latest kitchen equipment, to which Fuchs added a credenza that could be opened from both sides, thus enabling meals to be served directly from the kitchen to the dining room. The house featured mainly built-in furniture made according to Fuchs' own designs. The residential hall with the gallery open across stories and lit by the glass balcony door and glass block walls is the most impressive of the interior areas. The idea of the hall draws on Le Corbusier's concept of an open living area, which is ideally oriented and lit through a glass wall, as is specified in his design of the Citrohan House.
In 1929 Fuchs resigned from the position of the main city architect and continued to work in his private studio. As the capacity of the studio he had in his own villa was no longer sufficient, he connected the villa to the neighboring house, where he set up a large design studio. Fuchs' villa has recently undergone reconstruction which disrupted its former subtle grace by replacing the windows and adding thermal insulation to the facade.
Bohuslav Fuchs’s own villa
Name
Bohuslav Fuchs’s own villa
Date
1927 – 1928
Architect
Bohuslav Fuchs
Trail
Žabovřesky 1918–1945
Code
C216
Type
Residential house, villa
Address
Hvězdárenská 860/2,
(Žabovřesky), Brno, Žabovřesky
Public transport
Tábor (TRAM 3, 10)
Náměstí Míru (TRAM 4)
GPS
49°12'24.638"N, 16°35'1.861"E
Literature
Jan Sedlák (ed.),
Slavné vily Jihomoravského kraje,
Praha 2007
Jan Sedlák (ed.),
Slavné brněnské vily,
Praha 2006
Iloš Crhonek,
Architekt Bohuslav Fuchs. Celoživotní dílo,
Brno 1995
Jan Sedlák (ed.),
Pocta Bohuslavu Fuchsovi: Sborník referátů z mezinárodní vědecké konference v Brně,
Pocta Bohuslavu Fuchsovi: Sborník referátů z mezinárodní vědecké konference v Brně,
Brno 1995
Zdeněk Kudělka,
Bohuslav Fuchs,
Praha 1966
Jan Sapák,
Adolph Stiller (eds.), Adolph Stiller (eds.),
Bohuslav Fuchs Architekt der tschechischen Avantgarde,
Salzburg – Wien 2010
Jan Sedlák,
Jaromír Sedlák, Jaromír Sedlák,
Poznámky k architektonické kompozici Bohuslava Fuchse,
Orbis artium. K jubileu Lubomíra Slavíčka.,
Brno 2009
Rostislav Švácha,
Bohuslav Fuchs,
Domov,
1985, p. 4–7
Sources
https://pamatkovykatalog.cz/vlastni-vila-bohuslava-fuchse-18974743