Villa Tugendhat
Mies van der Rohe's 1930 modernist house above Luzanky park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Villa Tugendhat was built in 1929-30 for Greta and Fritz Tugendhat to a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, with interiors developed together with Lilly Reich. A steel frame allowed the main living level to be treated as one continuous open space, divided only by a wall of honey-coloured onyx and a semicircular screen of Macassar ebony. Large plate-glass panes can be lowered electrically into the floor, opening the room onto the terrace and the garden below.
The Tugendhat family left Czechoslovakia in 1938, and the house was later seized by the Gestapo, damaged during the war and used as a gymnasium and a rehabilitation centre. It passed to the city of Brno and now forms part of the Brno City Museum. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001, it reopened after a thorough restoration in 2012. Visits are by guided tour, with basic, extended and garden-only options.
Highlights
- Onyx wall and Macassar ebony screen in the main living space
- Plate-glass windows that retract electrically into the floor
- Preserved technical floor with the original air-conditioning plant
- UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2001
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