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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 The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete's son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: House and Family
1. People Who Live in Glass Houses
2. Writing the Family
Part II: Family and Firm
3. Before Löw-Beers
4. Founding the Firm
5. The Patriarch and His Siblings
6. The Sister Wives
7. The Double Cousins, before the War
8. Departures and After
9. The Patriarch's Son
Part III: Grete and Her World
10. Grete and Her Family, in Former Times
11. Grete and Her Family, the War Years
12. Grete and Her Family, after the War
13. The Philosophers: Helene Weiss, Käte Victorius, Ernst Tugendhat, Martin Heidegger
14. Tugendhat, after Heidegger
Part IV: The Family Regrouped and Represented
15. The Reunion
16. Reconciliations in Brno
17. Looking Back: Conundrums of Identity and Representation
Notes
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Index
