Tugendhat House, Brno, Czech Republic (Scale model of final version, 1:30)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · 1928-1930

This is the final model of the Tugendhat House at Brno, built at one to thirty in painted wood, metal, wooden tiles and plastic. The museum acquired it in nineteen thirty-two for its very first architecture exhibition — the show that gave the International Style its name.

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

Hanging beside it in Gallery 511: Railroad Car Spring, Column Cover for the German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Davidson Little Farms Unit Project (Model), Les Terrasses, Villa Stein-de-Monzie, Garches, France (Scale model, 1:33.3), American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company, project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Perspective of model A243, American System-Built Houses for The Richards Company project (Exterior perspective of model E3)

More by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe here: Column Cover for the German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain, Verseidag Administration Building, Krefeld, Germany, Interior perspective, looking northeast