The article maps out the more than eight decades of history of Villa Tugendhat. The author of the Villa for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat (1929-1930), the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, lived in the USA from the year 1938 and had an essential influence on the development of American architecture in the 20th …
A historical building survey 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 context of world modern architecture as well as …
This article examines two projects by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe which played an essential role in his European architectural production prior to his emigration to the USA in 1938. A comparison of Villa Tugendhat in Brno and the German Pavilion in Barcelona attempts to examine the shared features of the buildings and their importance for …
PROJEKTOVÁ KAMPAŇ 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 of Villa Tugendhat. …
Grete 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 were the Viennese architects Rudolf Baumfeld and Norbert Schlesinger. In terms of its nobility, fluid arrangement of the living space and refined details it recalls to …
The so-called Large Villa in the spirit of an Art Nouveau château building with Baroque and Neo-Classical elements was built in Svitávka (approximately 40 km north of Brno) by the Moses Löw-Beer company according to an anonymous project over the years 1900-1902. Within viewing distance, in an extensive park, the father of Grete Tugendhat, Alfred …
After a significant period of time, the first comprehensive summary of research by Czech scholars regarding Villa Tugendhat has been collected in one volume. The volume contains a summary of the most essential moments from the construction history of the house arising from construction history research in the year 2001 which has been supplemented in recent years …
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 house in the year 1913 to the factory owner Alfred Löw-Beer, the father of Grete Tugendhat. Extensive property extending up to Černopolní street belonged …
At the beginning of the 1860s the first villa colony — a housing estate with detached houses for the wealthy — was built in Brno in the slopes of Černá Pole above Lužánky Park. Important from the local point of view it also represents one of the first Central European sites fitting the typology. It was …
After the outbreak of World War II, Villa Tugendhat was confiscated by the German state secret police, becoming the property of the German Reich as of January 1942. The history of the house from October 1939, when it was taken over by the Gestapo, up to the beginning of the 1950s is particularly uncertain as …
The article discusses the adaptations to the internal plastering and paint work in Villa Tugendhat. It provides brief information regarding the technology and the materials in this area of the restoration of the structure. The article can be downloaded on the Czech version of our web pages. Pavlína Klazarová, Villa Tugendhat is open after renewal …
The Study and Documentation Centre was established in the Villa Tugendhat in 2005; the famous villa has been under the operative administration of the Brno City Museum since 1994. Since 2009, the Study and Documentation Centre has been working on the Document Collection Project involving the creation of a digitalized database of period plans, photographs, films …
This consists of a summary of the latest developments concerning Villa Tugendhat presented at the international symposium MATERIALITY. The symposium took place at the Brno Exhibition Grounds from the 27th to the 29th of April 2006 and was focused on research and care for preservation of surface areas of buildings of classic Modernism. A block of independent …
Fritz Löw-Beer (1906-1976), a cousin of Grete Tugendhat, collected East Asian art starting from the end of the 1920s. Over a period of time he became one of the leading experts in this field with his collection achieving world renown. The major part of the collection is now housed in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart which organised …
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 ensued immediately after …
The interdisciplinary conference “Mies Neu Denken – Rethinking Mies” took place from 25th – 27th October 2011 in Aachen Germany. This came about on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) in his home town. The goal of the discussions between both theoretical and practical specialists …
The villa of the builder Josef Arnold on Drobného street 26 was the second structure built as part of the oldest Brno villa colony nad Lužánkami. It was additionally the first structure from a trio of villas situated on the depth of the long plots of land between the streets Drobného and Černopolní. The importance of …
In 1927, the German Werkbund (German Artists Association) organized a generously conceived exhibition, which, under the programmatic title “A Flat”, presented ideas about 20th century construction of individual and collective housing. Seventeen architects representing European avant-garde implemented their designs. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the author of the housing estate plan and of the largest residential …
Between 1929-1930 the husband and wife Greta and Fritz Tugendhat had a house built in Brno to a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The house became famous as one of the most important examples of house designs in the world in terms of the structural system, layout, interior furnishing, services and the integration of the …
The remains of the original Deutsche Linoleum Werke (DLW) flooring were among the authentic fragments discovered during the renewal and restoration work over the years 2010-2012 at Villa Tugendhat. As part of the renewal work on the Villa in the 1980s, so-called Sorel cement, patented in the year 1927, was discovered under the PVC laid …
The first attempts at renewal and a dignified cultural use of one of the most famous villa structures in the world dates back to the beginning of the 1960s. The initiator and moving force behind the activities was the Brno architect František Kalivoda who had additionally established personal contacts with Grete Tugendhat. She consequently visited Brno …
