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The Tugendhat House in Brünn (Czech Republic) was planned and built by Mies van der Rohe from 1929-1930, and is universally regarded not only as one of his masterpieces, but also as one of the most important buildings of European Modern architecture. What makes this monograph particularly fascinating is the fact that it presents previously unpublished photographs belonging to the Tugendhat family. These show the house as it was when it was first lived in. The facade and the roof terrace are, as the architect had envisioned, covered with climbers and creepers, thus making it clear that the architecture of the house and the landscaped garden were conceived as a whole. A representative collection of plans and drawings from Mies van der Rohes atelier can also be seen for the first time. Carefully produced photographs of the original furniture in the familys possession, much of which has never been shown, are also included. Essays by Wolf Tegethoff, Franz Schulze, and Ivo Hammer give a det ailed analysis of the significance of the Tugendhat House in the context of Mies van der Rohes architecture as a whole, as well as the living concepts of Modern architecture, to which Mies made such a decisive contribution. Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat applies herself to the key question as to how habitable the Tugendhat House was, based on her personal recollections and texts written by her parents.
About the author
Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Malerei der Frühen Neuzeit und Gender Studies.
Wolf Tegethoff. Born 1953. Studied art history, town planning, constituti8onal, social and economic history in Bonn and at Columbia University in New York. Doctoral thesis in 1981 on the villas and country house projects of Mies van der Rohe. Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Kiel, Germany, from 1981-87. Vice Director, since 1991, Director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich with guest lectureships at the Universities of Bonn, Haifa, Innsbruck, Munich, Regensburg and Venice. Numerous publications on the work of Mies van der Rohe including, among others, Mies van der Rohe: Te Villas and Country Houses (1984, German edn. 1981).
