Casa das Marinhas, Portugal
Casa das Marinhas
Viena de Lima
Esposende, Portugal
1957
Casa das Marinhas is a weekend house by Viana de Lima, set in the seaside resort city of Esposende, about an hour’s drive north of Porto. The holiday home, built in 1954, is an intimate modernist work for the de Lima family's use. The architect incorporated the new structure into the remains of an old windmill. Today the house is a museum dedicated to de Lima's work.
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Wipf Bath House, Switzerland
Wipf Bath House
Jacques Wipf
Thun, Switzerland
1930/1950s
The tiny modernist gem of Wipf Bath House is located on the shores of Lake Thun in central Switzerland. It was built as a weekend and leisure retreat by little-known architect Jacques Wipf for his own family. The house is raised above the ground on pilotis and contains a single room. Later, in the 1950s, the architect added a second volume to its original tower-like structure.
Villa Solly Gold, Romania
Villa Solly Gold
Marcel Janco
Bucharest, Romania
1934
Villa Solly Gold blends the austere and chaotic urbanism of the old Jewish quarter in the middle of Bucharest with the solid modernist shapes that are so typical of both 1930s Bucharest and the work of Dadaist architect Marcel Janco. Janco rose to fame during the First World War when he helped found the Dada movement in Zurich. He then returned to his native country in the 1920s and began a career as an architect. Villa Solly Gold combines elements of Art Deco and Modernism, mainly in its sleek elegant interior.
