The Tugendhat House. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Tapa dura

The Tugendhat House in Brno (Czech Republic) was named by UNESCO in 2001 as one of the most important buildings of modern architecture and as a World Heritage Site. Mies van der Rohe designed and built it in 1928-1930 and it is beyond any doubt one of the pinnacles in his career. Based on the monograph of 1998 (in English: 2000) the authors describe the complex aspects of this house: personal, historical, art historical, architecture theoretical and restoration scientific ones. Most recent additions include personal reminiscences, photography experiments by Fritz Tugendhat and previously unpublished footage from the family mansion, the house's history after 1997, the conservation of scientifically important materiality of the house and comments on the methodology and techniques of restoration in 2010-2012.

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat. Born 1946 in Caracas/Venezuela. Studied art history and archaeology in Bern and Vienna. Doctoral Thesis on Hieronymus Bosch and the pictorial tradition, habilitation thesis on Studies of the History of Gender Relations in Art. Professor of art history at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and university lecturer at the Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria. Field of research: early modern painting. 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 to 1987. 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).