Villa Tugendhat, Czech Republic

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The Villa Tugendhat is considered a masterpiece of the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Built in 1930 in Brno, in today's Czech Republic, for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modern architecture. A modern minimalist home a humble father of the modern minimalist fabs.