Villa Münz, Functionalist villa in Pisárky, Czech Republic
Villa Münz is a functionalist residential structure in Brno-Pisárky built with three rectangular blocks arranged on a south-facing slope. The L-shaped layout deliberately separates living areas from service and utility spaces.
Architect Ernst Wiesner drew up the project in 1924 for Eduard Münz, director of Česká banka Union and honorary Persian consul; the house was finished in 1926 as the first of Wiesner's functionalist family villas. Nationalised after 1948 and altered, it housed the Zemědělské stavby directorate in the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to Münz's heirs in the 1990s, and was rebuilt as a replica by 2014.
Eduard Münz was director of the Česká banka Union and honorary consul of Persia; the villa served as his family home. The house is not a listed monument because post-1948 insensitive alterations damaged it. The garden's present form follows a design by landscape architect Ivar Otruba.
The villa stands in the upper part of a sloping garden in Pisárky, near Wiesner's neighbouring Villa Stiassni. The 2012–2014 reconstruction left only perimeter walls and individual elements such as the ribbon window and garage doors from the original building; the exterior follows period photographs, while the interior was modelled on other Wiesner works. The garden's present form comes from a design by landscape architect Ivar Otruba.
The 2012 reconstruction found the villa had no foundations, so most of it was demolished and rebuilt as a replica completed in autumn 2014 by the RAW studio. Only elements such as the ribbon window and garage doors survive from the 1926 original; the garden follows a plan by landscape architect Ivar Otruba.
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