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1. Brno Astronomical Clock – Church of St. Michael loop from Černá Pole

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02:53

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2. Brno Astronomical Clock – Zelný Trh Market loop from Brno-Černovice

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August 5, 2021

The Villa Tugendhat is considered to be one of the key works of modern architecture. This extraordinary and formally and technically unique architectural achievement came about primarily thanks to the cooperation of an excellent architect and a progressive thinking investor. The young couple Greta and Fritz Tugendhat decided in 1928 to build their own single-family home that would meet their ideas of modern living space. The property with an area of 2,000 m² on the southern slope of the Černá Pole (Black Fields) district was given to Greta as a wedding present from her father Alfred Löw-Beer, an important textile manufacturer of Jewish origin. The couple began looking for a suitable architect and finally turned to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose German buildings they knew. The architect delivered the finished draft of the villa at the end of 1928. In this he started from the conception of the German exhibition pavilion, which he planned for the world exhibition in Barcelona and adapted to the specific needs of the Brno residents. The uniqueness of the project lies in the use of a load-bearing steel structure (when building a single-family house for the first time in history), which allowed any design of the interior and generous glazing of the facade. The result was a free-flowing space in the main living hall and its merging with the outside area thanks to large sliding windows.

Construction began in June 1929 and, under the supervision of the architect, it was completed in a year and a half by the Brno construction company Mořic and Artur Eisler. The three-storey villa was set into the slope, with its main living rooms on the south-western side of the garden.

... and further bam.brno.cz/de/objekt/c327-villa-tugendhat

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JakobusPilger

March 18, 2025

"Considered a masterpiece of classical modern architecture and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's most important building on European soil, the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic, is a center of the architectural avant-garde. When it was built in the late 1920s, the Moravian metropolis was already a center of the architectural avant-garde. Thanks to the commitment of architects such as Bohuslav Fuchs and Arnost Wiesner to social housing, countless housing projects and residential buildings for the masses were built in Brno. With the Tugendhat House, a functionalist building for the upper classes was added."

This is how the website of the television series "Treasures of the World - Heritage of Humanity" describes this UNESCO World Heritage site. If you would like to watch the short film (available only in German) in the ARD media library, just follow the link =>> ardmediathek.de/video/schaetze-der-welt/das-haus-tugendhat-tschechien-folge-288/swr/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS82ODY1NTEw

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Villa Tugendhat

1. Brno Astronomical Clock – Church of St. Michael loop from Černá Pole

2. Brno Astronomical Clock – Zelný Trh Market loop from Brno-Černovice

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