Tugendhat House. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1928-1930, the Tugendhat House in Brno/Czech Republic is one of the most significant buildings of European modernism. In 2001, UNESCO added the house to the List of World Cultural Heritage Sites. Building on the book published by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat and Wolf Tegethoff in 1998 (English edition 2000) the three authors, in this new edition, give personal and historic insights relating to the house; also documenting aspects pertaining to art history and conservation-science studies. The appeal of this monograph lies in the published photographs which reveal an unusual view of the house and highlight the intended fusion between architecture and nature. The experimental artistic colour photographs by Fritz Tugendhat are among the pioneering achievements of amateur photography; that these images have remained intact is indeed remarkable. Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat reflects on the question muchdebated in 1931, "Is the Tugendhat House habitable?" in a new, historico- cultural context. Using the example of the Tugendhat House Wolf Tegethoff explores the living concept of modernism. At the beginning, he critically reflects on the discourse surrounding the relationship between client and architect. Based on his research on the preserved plans and drawings he meticulously reconstructs the genesis of the project until the building's completion in late 1930. In two contributions Ivo Hammer documents the eventful history of the house from the time its occupants emigrated until today. Based on the results of the international Conservation Investigation Campaign concerning the Tugendhat House he interprets the materiality of this modern building in a cultural context, while outlining the results of the restoration from 2010-2012.

List of contents

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Preface.- Grete Tugendhat: On the Construction of the Tugendhat House.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Living in the Tugendhaut House.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Is the Tugendhat House Habitable?- Grete und Fritz Tugendhat: The Inhabitants of the Tugendhat House Give their Opinion.- Grete Tugendhat: The Architect and the Client.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Fritz Tugendhat as a photographer.- Wolf Tegethoff: A Modern Residence in Turbulent Times.- Ivo Hammer: Surface is Interface. History of the Tugendhat House until 1997, and problems of conservation.- Ivo Hammer: History of the Tugendhat House after 1997, conservation and restoration of the house's scientifically important materiality in 2010-2012.- Nina Franziska Schneider und Wolf Tegethoff: Catalogue of the Original Furnishing of the Tugendhat House.- Colour Plates.- Bibliography.- Sources of Illustrations.- The Tugendhat Family.- The Authors.

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.

Ivo Hammer. Born 1944. Trained as conservator/restorer; studied art history and archaeology in Freiburg and Vienna. Doctoral dissertation on realism in the early 15th century. Head of mural painting conservation in the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments and Sites from 1976-1997; conservation projects include: Beethoven Frieze, Gustav Klimt (1902), Lambach Romanesque murals (about 1080) and Salzburg Nonnberg (about 1150), the Hohensalzburg fortress facades (15th 16th century). Since 1997 professor of wall painting/architectural surface conservation/restoration at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) Hildesheim/Holzminden, Germany.

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).

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe wurde 1886 in Aachen geboren. Er war Zeichner für Stuckdekorationen. Ab 1905 war er für verschiedene Berliner Architekten tätig. 1937 gründete er sein eigenes Büro. Er folgte Walter Gropius als Direktor des Bauhauses und ging später nach Chicago. Bis zu seinem Tod 1969 war er als Architekt und Lehrer tätig.

Product details

• Authors: Iv Hammer, Ivo Hammer, Daniel Hammer-Tugendhat, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, W Tegethoff, Wolf Tegethoff
• Publisher: Ambra
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9783990435090
• ISBN: 978-3-99043-509-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 317 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1521 g
• Illustrations: 195 b/w and 140 col. ill.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture