Villa Tugendhat in Brno, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929, is an early example of modern interchange between interior and exterior which is played out on several levels, both literally and figuratively. It is articulated differently on each of the two, or three floors, respectively (the basement and garden level included), using different means and with a different result, but always with a close eye to the relationship to the villa’s garden, the surrounding landscape, and the urban panorama. The paper explains how the building’s relationship to the landscape and the cityscape emerges from the architecture itself, from the very nature of the building which appropriates its external surroundings, visually and conceptually, and makes them an inseparable part of experience of the house, a kind of modern “belvedere”.