ArchDaily 2008-2020. At that there had never been a private house built with an iron construction so you can imagine our initial surprise. read more, The Tugendhats left Brno in May 1938.

The villa was exceptionally expensive for its time considering the lavish materials, abnormal construction methods, and extraordinary new technologies of heating and cooling. This was a reaction to an article on the new structure of the Brno Villa in the magazine 'Die Form' which was published in the year 1931 by the publisher himself Walter Riezler. “From the first moment we truly loved the house.

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Thanks to their contacts in Germany they were well informed about the current developments wherein remaining in Brno would have amounted to a certain sentence of death for the entire family.

The main force behind... read more The safety and signalling equipment were also technically brilliant. A When the children were small, we were constantly with them on the terrace. Mies deployed his new functionalist concept of iron framework, doing away with load-bearing interior walls and allowing for more open and light spaces.

The garden of Villa Tugendhat along with the lower garden of the Löw-Beer Villa had always formed a territorial although not an architectural whole. A The city rapidly grew with new construction activity, primarily connected with the building of the local ‘Ringstrasse’, lending Brno the typical features of a city of the 19th century Vienna type. V roce 2001 byla vila Tugendhat zapsána do seznamu světového dědictví UNESCO The chauffeur's flat with the garages and the terrace are accessible separately.

He shared his design with the Tugendhat family that new year’s eve, and with a few minor changes new plans were drafted and set into motion. The most prominent feature of the 'flowing' living area was the grand seating arrangement in front of the onyx wall and the dining room demarcated by the half-cylinder from Makassar ebony. read more, The inner furnishings of the house were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe along with his colleagues Lilly Reich and Sergius Ruegenberg. The first concrete step was in December 1963 with the registration of Villa Tugendhat on the list of architectural cultural monuments.

Steel frame construction was unusual for homes at that time, but brought with it many advantages that Mies was very occupied with and had already used in his famed Barcelona Pavilion – thinner walls, a free plan that could differ from floor to floor, large walls of glazing to open up rooms and connect them to the garden, etc. Grete had been involved in activities for the League for Human Rights starting in the year...

The interior could be connected up with the garden through suspension of the two large window panes.

read more, CAN THE TUGENDHAT VILLA BE LIVED IN? We consequently noticed small crosses at approximately five metres distance from one another. The existing... The individual functional zones within the area are divided up by the wall from honey and yellow coloured onyx with white veins from the foothills of the Atlas in Morocco and the half-circular wall originally from Macassar ebony wood mined on the island of Celebes in south-east Asia. Behind the ebony curved wall was a seating area next to a wall from milk glass which could be lit up.