Edith Farnsworth house
Title
Edith Farnsworth house
Publisher
Lawrence Technological University
Date Created
January 28, 2015
Creator
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Creator2
O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)
Creator Nationality
German
Work Type
Single Built Works
Date
July, 1965
Work Location
Illinois (state)
Plano (inhabited place)
Style/Period
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Modern (styles and periods)
Subject
houses
interior views
Description
Interior view of the Farnsworth house in Plano, Illinois designed by Mies van der Rohe and built in 1951. "The significance of the Farnsworth House was recognized even before it was built. In 1947 a model of the Farnsworth House was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Describing it, along with the unbuilt Resor House, as a “radical departure from his last European domestic projects,” Philip Johnson noted that it went further than the Resor house in its expression of the floating volume: “The Farnsworth house with its continuous glass walls is an even simpler interpretation of an idea. Here the purity of the cage is undisturbed. Neither the steel columns from which it is suspended nor the independent floating terrace break the taut skin” … In the actual construction, the aesthetic idea was progressively refined and developed through the choices of materials, colors and details. While subsequent debates and lawsuits sometimes questioned the practicality and livability of its design, the Farnsworth House would increasingly be considered, by architects and scholars alike, to constitute one of the crystallizing and pivotal moments of Mies van der Rohe’s long artistic career,"--Farnsworth House website.
Material/Medium
glass (material)
steel (alloy)
Measurements
1,500 square feet
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
LTU-TO-206
- Date Added
- January 28, 2015
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- houses, interior views, International
- Citation
- “Edith Farnsworth house,” LTU Digital Images, accessed May 4, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/14230.