Farnsworth house detail

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Farnsworth House - Exterior/Stairs - Designed as a weekend getaway house, this single story house boasts international style principles employed by the famous architect, Mies Van Der Rohe. Structure was of fundamental importance to this style where concrete and steel frames allowed facades that were once load bearing to become more like curtains of a building. This allowed for a glass facade with an open-plan with minimal approach to both interiors and construction details, especially the…

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Mies van der Rohe brought the use of golden section proportioning to a level of religion. The use of golden section proportions, 1:1.618, in the Farnsworth house made the structure a modernist Greek temple with white steel girder columns.The house prove…

The Farnsworth House has this in common with Cannery Row in Monterey, California: it is a poem, a quality of light, atone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. It has about it, also, an aura of high romance. The die for the romance was cast from the moment Mies van der Rohe decided to site the house next to the great black sugar maple - one of the most venerable in the county - that stands immediately to the south, within a few yards of the bank of the Fox River. The rhythms created by the…

Imagen 11 de 14 de la galería de Archivo: Cortes Fugados. Detalle y Corte fugado Crown Hall del Instituto (1956)

. Last summer I drove out to Plano, IL. to drool over the Farnsworth House, designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe between 1945-1951. I have family in Chicago,