Villa CS is a contemporary villa in Budapest that reinterprets the spatial and lifestyle traditions of California Modern architecture within a Central European context. In reality, the intellectual roots of the modern villa lie closer to Central Europe than might first appear. California’s mid-century modernism did not emerge in isolation: many of its protagonists carried with them the ideas of the European avant-garde. Richard Neutra, for example, was educated in Vienna in the intellectual environment shaped by figures such as Adolf Loos, whose radical rethinking of domestic space and material culture profoundly influenced the development of modern residential architecture.