Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic

1928-1930

Painted wood, metal, wooden tiles, plastic fence steps and windows

On view MoMA, Floor 5, 511 The David Geffen Wing

Grete and Fritz Tugendhat, a married couple who were both children of German-Jewish textile industrialists, commissioned Mies to design their hillside residence in the Czech city of Brno, a major center of European textile production. The home’s enormous glass panes offered panoramic views of the surrounding landscape and the factories in the valley below.

The house featured many technological innovations; for instance, the glass front of the living space could be mechanically lowered into the ground. The residence also included a water-powered air-conditioning system. The production of the home’s steel frame, glass panels, and twenty-nine identical cruciform columns was made possible by mass-production technologies.

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2023

Medium Painted wood, metal, wooden tiles, plastic fence steps and windows
Dimensions 13 x 44 1/2 x 36 x 10 3/4" (33 x 113 x 91.4 x 27.3 cm) including base 8 x 44 1/2 x 36" (20.3 x 113 x 91.4 cm)
Credit Exhibition Fund, 1932
Object number 47.1932
Department Architecture & Design

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American, born Germany. 1886–1969 2063 works online

One of the leading lights of modernist architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created a body of work—ranging from tubular steel furniture to iconic office buildings—that influenced generations of architects worldwide.

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