page_title: Villa
section_title: Modern villas
hierarchical_section_title: Villa / Villas abroad / 20th – 21st centuries / Modern villas
caption_attribution_description: English: The Getty Villa — in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. Fountain and sculpture in the Peristyle Garden of the Getty Villa Roman gardens.
context_page_description: A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to residences in the wildland–urban interface.
context_section_description: Modern architecture has produced some important examples of buildings known as villas:
  Villa Noailles by Robert Mallet-Stevens in Hyères, France
  Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier in Poissy, France
  Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto in Noormarkku, Finland
  Villa Tugendhat by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno, Czech Republic
  Villa Lewaro by Vertner Tandy in Irvington, New York
  Country-villa examples:
  Hollyhock House (1919) by Frank Lloyd Wright in Hollywood
  Gropius House by Walter Gropius (1937) in Lincoln, Massachusetts
  Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright (1939) in Pennsylvania, U.S.
  Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Plano, Illinois
  Kaufmann Desert House by Richard Neutra (1946) in Palm Springs, California
  Auldbrass Plantation by Frank Lloyd Wright (1940–1951) in Beaufort County, South Carolina
  Palácio da Alvorada by Oscar Niemeyer (1958) in Brasília, Brazil
  Getty Villa, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
caption: The Getty Villa, an adaptation of the Villa of the Papyri, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
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