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| Villa TugendhatView from the gardenGeneral informationLocationBrno, Czech RepublicCoordinates49xc2xb012xe2x80xb226xe2x80xb3N 16xc2xb036xe2x80xb257xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.20722xc2xb0N 16.61583xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.20722; 16.61583Coordinates: 49xc2xb012xe2x80xb226xe2x80xb3N 16xc2xb036xe2x80xb257xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.20722xc2xb0N 16.61583xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.20722; 16.61583Construction started1928xc2xa0(1928)Completed1930xc2xa0(1930)Design and constructionArchitectLudwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich UNESCO World Heritage SiteCriteriaCultural: ii, ivReference1052Inscription2001 (25th session)Area0.73 haBufferxc2xa0zone2,824.9 ha | WIKI |
| Built of reinforced concrete between 1928 and 1930[1] for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modernism. | WIKI |
| The free-standing three-story villa is on a slope and faces the south-west. | WIKI |
| [4] There were no paintings or decorative items in the villa, but the interior was by no means austere due to the use of naturally patterned materials such as the onyx wall and rare tropical woods. | WIKI |
| The architect managed to make the magnificent view from the villa an integral part of the interior. | WIKI |
| The villa was commissioned by the Jewish German Fritz and Greta Tugendhat. | WIKI |
| Fritz and Greta Tugendhat lived in the villa for just eight years before fleeing Czechoslovakia with their children in 1938 (including philosopher Ernst Tugendhat),[6] shortly before the country was dismembered following the Munich Agreement. | WIKI |
| The family moved to Switzerland and then to Venezuela; after the war they returned to Switzerland, but never lived in the villa again. | WIKI |
| The villa was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939 and used as an apartment and office; its interior was modified and many pieces disappeared. | WIKI |
| Willy Messerschmitt had his own apartment in the villa. | WIKI |
| In April 1945, Brno was liberated by the Red Army and a Russian cavalry unit stabled its horses in the villa, doing considerable damage to the building's white linoleum floor. | WIKI |
| What furniture remained in the villa was used for firewood. | WIKI |
| Greta Tugendhat returned to the villa in 1967 with Dirk Lohan a senior architect from Mies's Chicago studio (and his grandson) and explained the original design to him, and a group of Czech architects set out to repair it. | WIKI |
| [6][8] Since 1994 the villa has been open to the public as a museum administered by the city of Brno. | WIKI |
| In 1993 the Villa Tugendhat Fund and Friends of Tugendhat were formed to preserve the villa. | WIKI |
| In 2007 the Tugendhats' heirs applied for the restitution of the villa, citing a law covering works of art confiscated during the Holocaust. | WIKI |
| [9] This reconstruction finished in February 2012 and the villa was reopened to the public in March. | WIKI |
| [6] To celebrate the villa's restoration, the Royal Institute of British Architects launched 'Villa Tugendhat in Context', an exhibition in London giving a visual history and a record of the recent renovation through the testimony of three generations of photographers. | WIKI |
| Near Villa Tugendhat is Greta's family home, the Art Nouveau Lxc3xb6w-Beer Villa (now a branch of the Museum of the Brno Region), which will present an exhibition The World of the Brno Bourgeoisie around the Lxc3xb6w-Beers and Tugendhat. | WIKI |
| The villa was a principal location in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising, serving as the villa of the villain, Vladis Gutas. | WIKI |
| Simon Mawer's 2009 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, The Glass Room, is a fictional account of a house inspired by the villa. | WIKI |
| The Tugendhat Villa is situated in Brno, in the district of xc4x8cernxc3xa1 Pole, in the south of South Moravia in the Czech Republic. | UNESCO |
| The villa was designed by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and built on a commission from Grete and Frits Tugendhat, members of rich industrial families of Brno, in 1929xe2x80x931930.The prominent German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed not only the villa but also its furniture and the adjacent garden. | UNESCO |
| The Tugendhat Villa in Brno is a pioneering work of modern 20th century residential architecture. | UNESCO |
| Designing the interior residential area as a space without limits determines the architecture of the Tugendhat Villa. | UNESCO |
| The villa also reflects the desire of Mies van der Rohe to create an architecture concentrating on the essential and aiming at the purest expression in each detail as well as in the whole. | UNESCO |
| The Tugendhat Villa in Brno is one of the most original projects completed by Mies van der Rohe. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): The German architect Mies van der Rohe applied the radical new concepts of the Modern Movement triumphantly to the Tugendhat Villa to the design of residential buildings. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): Architecture was revolutionized by the Modern Movement in the 1920s and the work of Mies van der Rohe, epitomized by the Tugendhat Villa, played a major role in its worldwide diffusion and acceptance. | UNESCO |
| The protective zone of the urban heritage reservation serves as the buffer zone of the Tugendhat Villa. | UNESCO |
| The views of the villa and those from the villa of the town have been preserved. | UNESCO |
| All risks of the erection of buildings that could compromise the visual field of the villa are kept under control by the bodies responsible for heritage preservation. | UNESCO |
| The Tugendhat Villa in Brno meets the criteria of authenticity. | UNESCO |
| In spite of various alterations in the past and the loss of its original function, the present form of the villa, the materials and items of technical equipment of the villa are the same as in the design of the architect. | UNESCO |
| The authenticity is underlined by the fact that the villa serves as a house-museum. | UNESCO |
| The villa was used as a monument of modern architecture. | UNESCO |
| The Tugendhat Villa in Brno is protected under Act No. | UNESCO |
| The villa has been proposed as a viewpoint in the Brno Land Use Plan. | UNESCO |
| The City of Brno is the owner and administrator of the Tugendhat Villa, and is responsible for the maintenance, protection, and promotion of the property. | UNESCO |
| The villa is open to the public for guided tours. | UNESCO |
| In 2006, the Tugendhat Villa Foundation has been established with the aim to support the conservation and the presentation of the property. | UNESCO |
| Since the inscription of the villa on the World Heritage List, annual monitoring reports have been prepared at the national level to serve the property manager, the Ministry of Culture, the National Heritage Institute and other agencies involved as well. | UNESCO |