One garden becomes two architectural worlds

Begin at Villa Löw-Beer, because its plot physically connects two generations of Brno domestic ambition. The house was built in 1903–1904 for textile industrialist Moritz Fuhrmann and bought by Alfred Löw-Beer in 1913. In 1929 he gave the upper part of the estate to his daughter Greta Tugendhat. That single family transfer created the ground on which one of Europe's most famous modern houses would appear. From the street, do not rush toward Tugendhat yet. Look at the Löw-Beer villa as the older half of a family and landscape story: an ornate early-twentieth-century house below, a radically different one eventually above it.