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Fig. 8

From: White, everything white? Josef Frank’s Villa Beer (1930) in Vienna, and its materiality in the context of the discourse on ‘white cubes’

Fig. 8

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Tugendhat House, Brno (1930), upper terrace, view to the southeast: ‘Archaeological window’ (campione), which shows the original facade surface. The lime wash of the remaining façade surface, re-established according to the historic tradition of repair and renewal, is kept lighter because it darkens as it ages (Source: Ivo Hammer 2012)

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