Martin is not in Madrid

When I was in Brno last time, we visited also villa Tugndhat, one of the finest pieces of modern architecture. It was build in 1930 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It became the icon of the modern architecture style functionalism that was quite popular here between wars. Nowadays, the villa is a part of UNESCO World Heritage (since 2001).

View to the windows of the main living area

Unfortunately, the villa is in very bad condition. The city wants it to be repaired, the project is finished, and was about to start in june, but as usually, they got wrong the process of doing the competition for the project, so the project ended at court, and they must do the competition for the project once again. F* lawyers, and f* city. They spent incredible 10 000 000 CZK (about €400 000) for project for reconstruction. This is not a normal price, and I don’t believe that there was not something in behind. And this money are lost now. I think that somebody in the town hall should be punished.

The villa will be reconstructed, but nobody knows when.

The reconstruction will be, indeed very expensive. The materials are mostly expensive materials from all around the world. There are also some incredible jewels. The villa cost a few millions CZK which was incredible amount before WW2. A normal house could be build for a price of hundred thousand CZK.

Dining area

We couldn’t take pictures inside the villa, so I have just some from outside. However, the inside is incredible. Clean space, everything made just for the villa. The space is huge, and the technology was the best at the time.

View inside the villa. Taken thru the window.

The villa had three floors. The top floor which is in the same level as the road above the villa (the villa is in the hill) was used as private living area. It had some atypical stuff inside like furniture that is put inside the walls which was not known at the time. And so on. However, nowadays it is almost empty, no furniture was left.

However, I think the best was the second floor. There was one big common open space room divided just by partial walls. The whole room had full glass windows on two sides, and on one side, there was also a winter garden. Some of the windows could be put down by electrical mechanism. In this open space, there was a library, working room, resting area, and dining part. Everything divided by partial walls.

Park

I also didn’t mention the garden, or I should tell a small park bellow the villa. It used to be twice or three times bigger extending to the bellow street, but during the time it was divided, and some houses were build in the bottom part.

Also I should provide some links:

• Official site
• Wikipedia

Winter garden

Lighting

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Garage

The main staircase

Overlook of Brno

After not a very long time, I was again in Brno. This time I came to the game developers conference which was promoted by Pavel, and during the day we went to Moravská Galerie to see bienale exhibition.

Tomáš

Then there were some posters and logos.

Street art was just bellow the roof.

Street art

A lot of books.

On the next picture, there is a nice example how to make a book cover. When you shuffle a little with the plastic striped cover, you will uncover different text.

The holes in the paper were so fine that we couldn’t believe that it is possible to make them.

Reading…

The last thing we saw was quite funny exhibition of some authors from Slovakia. They were presenting Slovakian national symbols in very funny way which is very unique, because when you think about the nationalism in Slovakia, you ask yourself were they really our eastern neighbours?