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Villa Tugendhat in Brno, a work by Ludwig Miese van der Rohe (1886-1969) completed in 1930, was put on the list of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of the UNESCO. The author of the villa design, born in Germany, was a director of Bauhaus in 1930-1933. From 1938 he lived in the U.S.A. He created a distinctive characteristic style which influenced modern architecture all over the world. After 1929 he arrived at modern classicism based on a strictly rectangular composition of modern elements and high quality materials. He was the author of a design of glass skyscrapers for Berlin, the German pavilion at the International Exhibition at Barcelona, the residential tower buildings in Chicago, the skyscraper Seagram Building in New York, etc.
Villa Tugendhat, designed as a functionalist building, stands on the hillside of the Brno residential quarter Černé Pole facing the city centre, Špilberk and Petrov. The three-floor building is partially set in the hill. A broad staircase joins the dining room with the garden which makes an integral part of the building, a fact which the author of the stamp endeavoured to emphasize. L. Mies van der Rohe also designed the furniture and interior details, such as door handles, curtains, lighting bodies, etc. All technical facilities were also designed in a modern way and by several decades outrun the time. |
