Doda

Situated in the same way as the Villa Muller, the Villa Tugendhat is nestled into a sloping plot of land that descends from a rural street towards the Brno city centre with a view dominated by the Spilberk castle. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe utilized the landscape to anchor the house into the hillside by placing the lower two levels into the hillside. From the street level the house appears to be a low one-storey structure. Grete Weiss Low-Beer and Fritz Tugendhat commissioned the villa and Mies began the initial designs in September 1928. After a few meetings between the architect and clients the construction began and the villa was completed in 1930.