Visiting Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat
Over the New Year, my wife and I were fortunate enough to spend some time in the Czech Republic. Much of our time was spent in Prague, but for one day we ventured south to the city of Brno to see the famed Villa Tugendhat, designed by German-American Mies van der Rohe between 1928 and 1930. Described as one of the pioneering structures in modern architecture, Tugendhat is an enormous, iconic, and truly spectacular building that is well ahead of its time in countless ways. In