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Behind the Glass - The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family (Hardcover)
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Behind the Glass - The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family (Hardcover)
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an
icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected
to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile
manufacturing. The book traces the transformations in the life of
the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the
wealthy bourgeoisie in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to adaptation in
interwar independent Czechoslovakia and flight in the face of Nazi
invasion. Michael Lambek examines the generation born in the first
decade of the twentieth century, especially Grete Tugendhat -
Lambek's maternal grandmother - who commissioned, inhabited,
championed, and relinquished the distinctive modern house. An
exploration of life in and surrounding the Villa Tugendhat offers a
factual portrait that runs counter to the fictional one portrayed
in Simon Mawer's The Glass Room. The book also provides unpublished
correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat,
Grete's son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017
family reunion. Behind the Glass reflects on the meaning of a
"family" and suggests that it is more than a nuclear household - a
family reproduces itself over generations, a product of how it
represents itself and is represented by others.
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