The development of events surrounding the Tugendhat Villa and its reconstruction

December 14, 2001 - The Tugendhat Villa by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
November 21, 2003 - Brno issued its second public competition for the preparation of the monument's reconstruction.
July 2004 - Brno selected the winner of the competition - the Association for the Tugendhat Villa, led by Omnia projekt company. The second place went to the joint project of architects Ludvik Grym, Jan Sapák, and Jindřich Škrabal.
September 27, 2006 - The Brno municipal office made a mistake in the selection process for the project documentation for the villa's reconstruction. The winning association of firms should have been disqualified due to non-fulfillment of requirements, which was not done. The Regional Court in Brno annulled two decisions of the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), according to which the competition was in order. Thus, it upheld the complaint of three architects who finished second in the selection process.
December 4, 2006 - The ÚOHS filed a cassation complaint against the decision of the Brno Regional Court concerning the tender for the villa's repairs.
December 14, 2006 - The Brno City Council cancelled the public contract for the villa's repairs. The reason was an inspection of the tender for project documentation for repairs, which, according to some indications, might have been manipulated. According to the councilors, the estimated cost of repairs, nearly 200 million crowns, was significantly overestimated.
December 28, 2006 - The descendants of the Tugendhat couple requested the city of Brno and the Ministry of Culture to return the villa. The Jewish family left it before the war in 1938. The city received a request for a gratuitous transfer of the villa as an artwork, according to the law on alleviating certain property injustices caused by the Holocaust.
January 30, 2007 - The Brno City Council instructed the councilors to prepare a proposal for the transfer of the villa to state property, which would then be returned to the heirs of the original owners.
February 5, 2007 - A statue called "Torso of a Walking Woman," which was originally in the Tugendhat Villa, was bought at auction at Sotheby's in London by an unknown collector for one million pounds (approximately 42 million crowns). The statue had been in the possession of the Moravian Gallery in Brno until 2006 but was then returned to the Tugendhat family.
February 13, 2007 - The Brno City Council decided to send a request for an opinion on the villa's transfer to the Ministry of Culture and Finance and the Office for Representation of the State in Property Matters (ÚZSVM).
March 17, 2007 - According to MfD and Brno Daily, both ministries and ÚZSVM refused to take ownership of the villa for the state.
March 20, 2007 - Brno's councilors decided that Brno would not return the Tugendhat villa to the descendants of the original owners.
April 26, 2007 - The Anti-Corruption Service closed its investigation into the selection process for the reconstruction project of the villa. The suspicion that the tender was manipulated was not confirmed.
April 30, 2008 - The Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) confirmed that the tender for the designer of the Tugendhat Villa was flawed. The Brno municipal office should have disqualified the winning association of firms. The NSS thus rejected the cassation complaints of the antimonopoly office and the winners of the competition. The ÚOHS must follow the court’s opinion in the new decision.
August 28, 2008 - The Regional Court in Brno decided the dispute among architects. Jan Sapák does not have to apologize to the Omnia company for statements regarding the tender, which he repeatedly claimed in the media was manipulated.
- The ÚOHS issued a new decision: the Brno city hall must once again select architects to prepare the project for the reconstruction of the villa.