Loos's pupils try a different domestic modernity

At Schodová 18, the timeline reaches 1928. Karl Hofmann and Felix Augenfeld, Austrian architects associated with the circle of Adolf Loos, designed Villa Himmelreich for a family connected to Brno's German-Jewish textile industry. Its modernity is not identical to Tugendhat's. That is the useful part. Interwar Brno was not following one recipe. Different architects were testing different ways to simplify facades, organise domestic life and signal contemporary taste. Look at the house as a competing answer, not a warm-up act for Mies. The substantial roof and restrained street elevation make that alternative especially easy to notice from public space.