In 1928, Fritz Tugendhat and his new wife Grete — both German-born Jews — commissioned architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich to build them a glass house on a hilltop in the city of Brno, Czechoslovakia. The Villa Tugendhat was to be a new home for a new Europe: sleek, spare, and open to the light of the outside world. Its functionalist principles expressed the hope for a future without secrets or self-denial, and its long glass walls reflected the freedoms that Grete expected to define the rest of the 20th century. Less than 10 years later, the Tugendhats were forced to flee in the looming shadow of a Fascist occupation. Czechoslovakia became the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Villa Tugendhat was turned into the local offices of the Messerschmitt corporation, which engineered much of Hitler’s air force.
Adapted from Simon Mawer’s bestselling 2009 novel “The Glass Room...
Adapted from Simon Mawer’s bestselling 2009 novel “The Glass Room...
- 3/5/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Maggie Gyllenhaal, best known for her roles in The Dark Knight, Stranger Than Fiction, and The Deuce, has been cast in a non-fiction drama alongside Ralph Fiennes, best known as Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, as well as his roles in Schindler’s List, The Reader, and the most recent Bond films.
The film will be based on the Farnsworth House, a National Historic Landmark house in Illinois that was designed and constructed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, between 1945 and 1951. Fiennes will play Mies van der Rohe, and Gyllenhaal will play Dr. Edith Farnsworth M.D., a prominent Chicago nephrologist and the woman who commissioned the house, a work of art made of glass and steel in the Illinois countryside.
The pair had a tumultuous love affair, and the house became a masterpiece of the architectural and artistic community. Gyllenhaal had this to say about the...
The film will be based on the Farnsworth House, a National Historic Landmark house in Illinois that was designed and constructed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, between 1945 and 1951. Fiennes will play Mies van der Rohe, and Gyllenhaal will play Dr. Edith Farnsworth M.D., a prominent Chicago nephrologist and the woman who commissioned the house, a work of art made of glass and steel in the Illinois countryside.
The pair had a tumultuous love affair, and the house became a masterpiece of the architectural and artistic community. Gyllenhaal had this to say about the...
- 1/29/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
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