RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
VILLA TUGENDHAT – THE FACADE OF AN ICON
Villa Tugendhat, “an icon” of Modern architecture, is the work of the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Having been completed more than eighty years ago, it is also a monument and has consequently gone through a great deal. It did not become an icon overnight despite the fact that discussions regarding its merits... read more
Villa Tugendhat is once again close to the original
Dagmar Černoušková, Alena Štěpánková, Marek Navrátil, Villa Tugendhat is once again close to the original, BRNO BUSINESS & STYLE, roč. 20, č. 1, 2012, s. 4-7, 86; www.iBrno.cz The article can be downloaded here. In 2010–2012 villa Tugendhat underwent its second renovation (the first renovation was carried... read more
The DLW Floor Covering
Pavlína Klazarová, The Celebrated Villa Tugendhat Is Open Once Again After Renewal Work as of March, DOMO (the floor materials and systems; the parquet and wood floors), year 16, no. 2, 2012, pp. 26-28. The article can be downloaded on the Czech version of our web pages. The remains of the original Deutsche Linoleum... read more
THE GENIUS LOCI OF THE SLOPE ABOVE LUŽÁNKY PARK
Dagmar Černoušková, The genius loci of the slope above Lužánky Park.On the first “villa estate” in Brno. In: 67 bulletin Moravské galerie v Brně (Bulletin of the Moravian Gallery in Brno), 2011, pp. 70-79 At the beginning of the 1860s the first villa colony — a housing estate with detached houses for the wealthy —... read more
THE HOUSE OF GRETA AND FRITZ TUGENDHAT IN BRNO
Iveta Černá, The house of Greta and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno. In: 67 bulletin Moravské galerie v Brně (Bulletin of the Moravian Gallery in Brno), 2011, pp. 80-91 Between 1929-1930 the husband and rife Greta and Fritz Tugendhat had a house built in Brno to a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The house became famous... read more
THE VILLA TUGENDHAT DURING THE COURSE OF MONUMENT RENOVATION WORK
Iveta Černá – Dagmar Černoušková – Ivan Wahla – Milan Žáček – David Židlický, The Villa Tugendhat during the Course of Monument Renovation Work, Průzkumy památek, roč. XVIII, 1/2011, s. 195-202 The Study and Documentation Centre was established in the Villa Tugendhat in 2005; the famous villa has been under the operative... read more
A contribution by Martina Hrabová
A contribution at the conference „MIES NEU DENKEN – RETHINKING MIES“ by Martina Hrabová presents the person of Mies van der Rohe in the light of the most recent research developments and within the context of contemporary architecture production. The article can be downloaded on the Czech version of our web... read more
THE ARNOLD VILLA AND THE FIRST VILLA COLONY NAD LUŽÁNKAMI
Dagmar Černoušková, The Arnold Villa above Lužánky Park. On the First Villa Colony in Brno. In: Jana Čermáková, Radana Červená, Hana Jordánková, Irena Loskotová, Jitka Šibíčková (eds.), AND IN GENERAL… The Classified Collection for Milena Flodrová on her 75th Birthday, Brno: the Statutory City of Brno and Brno City... read more
FRITZ LÖW-BEER AS A COLLECTOR OF ASIAN ART
Dagmar Černoušková - Iveta Černá, Not Seeing the Trees Because of the Forest. The Other World of the Collector Fritz Löw-Beer. In: Jiří Kroupa, Michaela Šeferisová Loudová, Lubomír Konečný (eds.), ORBIS ARTIUM. On the Anniversary of Lubomír Slavíček, Brno: Masarykova univerzita 2009, pp. 755-765Fritz Löw-Beer (1906-1976)... read more
THE ARCHITECT FRANTIŠEK KALIVODA AND THE TUGENDHAT VILLA 'CAUSE'
THE ARCHITECT FRANTIŠEK KALIVODA AND THE TUGENDHAT VILLA 'CAUSE'Dagmar Černoušková – Jindřich Chatrný, The Architect František Kalivoda and the Villa Tugendhat “cause” (several notes), Prostor Zlín, year XIV, no. 4, 2007, pp. 36-43 The first attempts at renewal and a dignified cultural use of one of the most... read more
THE LATEST NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY OF VILLA TUGENDHAT
Dagmar Černoušková – Josef Janeček – Karel Ksandr – Pavel Zahradník, New Notes on the Construction History of Villa Tugendhat and its Restoration and Reconstruction over the years 1981-1985, Průzkumy památek, year. XV, 1/2008, pp. 89-126 (www.pruzkumypamatek.cz)After a significant period of time, the first comprehensive... read more
THE TUGENDHAT VILLA AS A RESEARCH CENTRE
Iveta Černá – Dagmar Černoušková, Villa Tugendhat as a Research Centre. In: Iveta Černá – Ivo Hammer (eds.), MATERIALITY, Proceedings from the International Symposium on Preserving Monuments of Modern Architecture, Brno: Brno City Museum and Hornemann Institut 2008, pp. 208-221This consists of a summary of the latest... read more
THE LÖW-BEER VILLA IN SVITÁVKA
Dagmar Černoušková – Iveta Černá, The Large Löw-Beer Villa and the Small Löw-Beer Villa in Svitávka. In: Jan Sedlák (ed.), Famous Villas of the South Moravian Region, Prague: Foibos 2007, pp. 32-38The so-called Large Villa in the spirit of an Art Nouveau château building with Baroque and Neo-Classical elements was... read more
THE LÖW-BEER VILLA IN BRNO
Dagmar Černoušková, The Löw-Beer Villa in Brno. In: Jan Sedlák (ed.), Famous Brno Villas, Prague: Foibos 2006, pp. 27-28 The Brno industrialist in textiles, Moritz Fuhrmann, had an Art Nouveau villa built over the years 1903-1904 in Brno on Sadova street (Parkstrasse), at present Drobného street. His sons sold the... read more
THE ERNST LÖW-BEER VILLA
Iveta Černá, The Ernst Löw-Beer Villa in Brno. In: Jan Sedlák (ed.), Famous Brno Villas, Prague: Foibos 2006, pp. 103-105Grete Tugendhat's cousin, Ernst Löw-Beer (the brother of the collector of Asian art Fritz Löw-Beer), had a family house constructed on Kalvodova street in Brno-Pisárky in the year 1935. The authors... read more
VILLA TUGENDHAT OVER THE YEARS 1940-1950
Zdeněk Kudělka - Lenka Kudělková, New Findings Regarding Villa Tugendhat. In: 57. Bulletin Moravské galerie v Brně (Bulletin of the Morvian Gallery in Brno), 2001, pp. 92-98 After the outbreak of World War II, Villa Tugendhat was confiscated by the German state secret police, becoming the property of the German Reich... read more
CONSTRUCTION HISTORY RESEARCH
Construction history research (CHR) on the Brno Villa of Greta and Fritz Tugendhat was prepared in the year 2001. Art history and theoretical analyses by the country’s leading art historians and architecture theoreticians make up separate chapters of the CHR research project. The Villa is also evaluated within the... read more
Project Preparation for the Rehabilitation of Villa Tugendhat
PROJECT CAMPAIGN The project preparation for the renewal of a key work of world Modernist architecture, Villa Tugendhat in Brno, was begun at the beginning of the year 2005. The full name of the project, prepared over the period of January 2005 up to September 2006, is The Project for Rehabilitation and Restoration... read more
SELECTION FROM THE LITERATURE
One of the tasks of the Study and Documentation Centre is to provide researchers with the widest possible spectrum of information about not only Villa Tugendhat, but also regarding Brno and Czech architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries in general. A selection of specialized literature has consequently been established... read more