The architect builds himself a summer house

Josef Arnold was not designing a manifesto when he built his own villa in 1862. He was participating in something newer for Brno: a villa colony on the hillside above Lužánky. The house was historicist, not modernist. Decades later, after Cecílie Hože acquired it, the villa was enlarged and its interiors shifted toward Art Deco and Art Nouveau. That layered history is exactly why it belongs here. Černá Pole learned to live modern partly by modifying what already existed. Look for a building that refuses to belong to a single date. Its recent restoration has made that layered biography easier to read rather than smoothing it into one invented historical moment.