Mies Van der Rohe - Farnsworth House, River Rd Plano, US - Printable Version

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Mies Van der Rohe - Farnsworth House, River Rd Plano, US - anjali - 08-27-2014

Farnsworth House, River Rd Plano, US , 1946 - 1951.

In 1944 Mies van der Rohe became a U.S. citizen. In 1946 he began work on the Farnsworth House a weekend retreat for doctor Edith Farnsworth. It’s one of the most minimalist houses ever designed being composed of a transparent box framed by eight exterior steel columns with a single room subdivided by partitions and completely enclosed in glass.

It—two parallel planes held in suspension between the earth and sky by only eight steel columns—seems simple, but Mies worked through 167 drawings to come to his final, fearless design.

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