ARCHITECTURE DAY 2022

In cooperation with local organizations and initiatives, the KRUH association is preparing the 12th edition of the nationwide Architecture Day festival in autumn, which involves Czech, Moravian and Slovak towns and municipalities of all sizes. The Brno programme will of course again include Villa Tugendhat. Jana Tichá, an architecture theorist and critic, will talk about the contextual relationship between Villa Tugendhat and its surroundings, and the indirect connection between the interior and the exterior during a tour of the garden and the villa's surroundings. The tour will be followed by the premiere of a short documentary about Lilly Reich, interior designer and collaborator of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Both events require reservation on the festival website in advance.

ARCHITECTURE DAY 2022

The festival will take place this year from Friday 30 September to Thursday 6 October, especially on the weekend of 1 to 2 October 2022.  The motto of the twelfth edition of the festival is “Don’t demolish, transform!” and the programme will thus largely focus on the ecological, economic and ethical dimensions of architecture and construction and will present successful solutions for reconstruction and revitalisation on various scales. The themes of this year’s World Architecture Day are linked to the European Year of Greener Cities 2022 initiative.

VILLA TUGENDHAT: HOUSE, GARDEN, CITY

Mies’ relationship to the landscape and the surroundings comes from within the architecture, from the inherent character of the building, which adopts its external environment, visually and conceptually rather than physically: the garden in Mies’ work is not so much a direct continuation of the house as a separate unit. This is no different in the case of Villa Tugendhat in Brno.

Reservations and more info at https://www.denarchitektury.cz/program/brno-vila-tugendhat-dum-zahrada-mesto/.

Sat 1/10 | 16:00

(ON SET WITH) LILLY REICH

This short Spanish documentary explores the limits of the recognition of Lilly Reich, co-author of Villa Tugendhat, in the architectural milieu and her role in the emergence of the modern movement. The film combines original documentary sources with newly created visual material.

Reservations and more info at https://www.denarchitektury.cz/program/brno-on-set-with-lilly-reich/.

Sat 1/10 | 18:00