World Heritage Identification Number: 1052
World Heritage since: 2001
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇨🇿 Czechia
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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A Pioneer of Modern Architecture: The Tugendhat Villa in Brno
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, a city in the Czech Republic, stands as a testament to the evolution of modern architecture in Europe during the 1920s. This architectural masterpiece, designed by the renowned German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his collaborator Lilly Reich, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding example of the international style in the modern movement in architecture as it developed in Europe in the 1920s. Its particular value lies in the application of innovative spatial and aesthetic concepts that aim to satisfy new lifestyle needs by taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by modern industrial production.
UNESCO Justification of the World Heritage Site
Criterion (i): The Tugendhat Villa is a masterpiece of the Modern Movement in architecture.
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.
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.
Encyclopedia Record: Villa Tugendhat
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.Additional Site Details
Area: 0.73 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 49.2071833333 , 16.6160555556
