Villa Tugendhat
Paths outward
- Location
- Brno, Czech Republic
- Year
- 1930
- Typology
- House
- Materials
- Concrete
- Context
- Functionalism, Neues Bauen, Modernism, International Style
- Map
- Open location
Villa Tugendhat is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was built between 1928 and 1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, of the wealthy and influential Jewish Czech Tugendhat family. Of reinforced concrete, the villa soon became an icon of modernism. Famous for its revolutionary use of space and industrial building materials, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.
