4. People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

Friedman, Alice T.

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4. People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

The Farnsworth House (1945–51; plate 1), in Plano, Illinois, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) is one of a handful of modern buildings that always seem extraordinary: it is among the most frequently illustrated of all twentieth-century houses, yet like Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (1929–30) and Wright’s Fallingwater (1936), the sight of the Farnsworth House still takes ones breath away. Countless architecture students have memorized its canonic image, its plan, the name of its architect, …

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Alice T. Friedman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.127-159

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00177.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15105

Chapter subject tags:Architecture, DomesticMies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005

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