Kovařovic Villa, Cubist villa in Vyšehrad, Czech Republic
The Kovařovic Villa is a Cubist private villa in the Vyšehrad neighborhood of Prague 2, designed by architect Josef Chochol and listed as a protected cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The building features a facade made up of angled planes, sharp edges, and broken forms that shape every part of the exterior, from the roofline down to the base.
Josef Chochol designed the villa in 1913, at a time when a group of Czech architects and artists were jointly exploring how Cubism could be applied to buildings. This movement was especially strong in Bohemia, and Prague remains one of the few cities in the world where the Cubist style was consistently applied to architecture.
The villa sits in a residential street just below the Vyšehrad fortress, where many people pass by without stopping to look closely. Those who do pause will notice how every surface of the facade is cut at an angle, which was seen as a bold departure from how private homes were typically built at the time.
The villa is on Libušina street in the Vyšehrad neighborhood and can be reached on foot from the fortress complex in just a few minutes. As it is a private home that is still lived in, the interior is not open to visitors, and those who come should view and photograph it from the street.
Josef Chochol designed three Cubist buildings in close succession on the slopes below Vyšehrad, making this small area one of the few places in the world with such a concentration of this style. The Kovařovic Villa is the smallest of the three, but its corner position on the street makes it the most directly visible from multiple angles.
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