Main entry:

Lambek, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

Behind the glass : the Villa Tugendhat and its family / Michael Lambek.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

x, 425 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
People Who Live in Glass Houses -- Writing the Family -- Before Löw-Beers -- Founding the Firm -- The Patriarch and His Siblings -- The Wiedmann Sisters -- The Double Cousins, before the War -- Departures and After -- The Patriarch's Son -- Grete and Her Family, in Former Times -- Grete and Her Family, the War Years -- Grete and Her Family, after the War -- The Philosophers: Helene Weiss, Käte Viktorius, Ernst Tugendhat, Martin Heidegger -- Tugendhat, after Heidegger -- The Reunion -- Reconciliations in Brno -- Looking Back: Conundrums of Identity and Representation.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism. 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 The book also provides unpublished correspondence between Martin Heidegger and Ernst Tugendhat, Grete's son, as well as a description of the impact of a 2017 family reunion.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."-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Michael Joshua Lambek FRSC is Canadian anthropologist who serves as professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is a specialist in the anthropology of religion.

ISBN:

9781487542191 hardcover
1487542194 hardcover
(EPUB)
9781487542221
(PDF)
9781487542214

Subject:

Tugendhat family History 20th century.
Tugendhat family Homes and haunts Czech Republic Brno History 20th century.
Tugendhat (Famille) Histoire 20e siècle.
Tugendhat (Famille) Résidences et lieux familiers République tchèque Brno Histoire 20e siècle.
Tugendhat family
Tugendhat family Homes and haunts Czech Republic
Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) History 20th century.
Vila Tugendhat (Brno, République tchèque) Histoire 20e siècle.
Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic)
Jewish families Czech Republic Brno History 20th century.
Jews Czech Republic Brno History 20th century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Czech Republic Brno History 20th century.
Familles juives République tchèque Brno Histoire 20e siècle.
Juifs République tchèque Brno Histoire 20e siècle.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) République tchèque Brno Histoire 20e siècle.
Homes
Jewish families
Jews
Jewish families Czech Republic Brno Biography
Brno (Czech Republic) Genealogy.
Brno (Czech Republic) Buildings, structures, etc.
Brno (République tchèque) Généalogies.
Czech Republic Brno
Brno (Czech Republic)

Form/genre:

Genealogy
History
Family histories.
Histoires familiales.

Added entries:

Villa Tugendhat and its family

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317653
Call No.: 317653
Copy: 1
Status: Available