Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

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cid_1143232167_IMG_1686_crop.150.jpg Farnsworth House
Designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Location Plano, Illinois, USA
Date 1946 to 1950
Building Type Small House
Construction System Steel, Concrete, Glass
Climate Cold Temperate
Context rural
Architectural Style Modern
Street Address 14520 River Rd.
Notes
At Great Buildings http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Farnsworth_House.html

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Farnsworth House
Designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Location Plano, Illinois, USA
Date 1951
Building Type Housing
Construction System Steel, Steel, Concrete, Glass
Architectural Style Miesian, Modern
Street Address 14520 River Rd.
Notes


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National Register of Historic Places
Name Farnsworth House
ID Number 4000867
NRHP Status Listed In The National Register
Certification Date 10/07/2004
Level of Significance National


"The Farnsworth house is Mies's summary statement of those spatial and architectural concerns he first realized in the Barcelona Pavilion, and which he further developed in the Tugendhat house.... However, contained in what is a pure expression of its age is another vision, that of a transparent house in a verdant landscape."

— David Spaeth. Mies Van Der Rohe. London: The Architectural Press, 1985. p125.



Details

2156 square feet

American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1981

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"Farnsworth House Saved", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 179, 2004.0128, pN1.1.

"Mies, Classical Modernist", by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 61, 2001.0808, pN1.1.

Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. plan and section diagram, p158. grid geometry diagram, p194. binuclear diagram, p204. Updated edition available at Amazon.com

Edward R. Ford. The Details of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-06121-X. LC 89-31772. NA2840.F67 1989. exterior photos, construction section/anonmetric details, p266-267. drawing of wall section detail, p266. Highly recommended for serious observers, and available at Amazon.com

Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-01328-0. LC 92-18415. NA2750.H48. exterior photo, p86.

Wolf Tegethoff. Mies van der Rohe, the Villias and Country Houses. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1985. photo of interior, f21.11. Color photo of exterior, f21.10. photo of exterior, f21.12.

Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, Volume 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. exterior photo, f284, p354. An excellent survey of American architecture. Reprint Edition Available at Amazon.com

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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