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21 Villa Tugendhat - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


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Initially, steel-skeleton construction or reinforced-concrete frame constructions were only used in industrial and commercial buildings, but thanks to Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, they also became commonplace in residential construction in the 1920s. An impressive example is the modernist villa that Mies built for Fritz and Grete Tugendhat.

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