The Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece in Chicago’s far southwest suburbs, needs no introduction. As graceful as a Greek temple and as serene as a Shinto shrine ...

The essence of the Farnsworth House’s elegant, less-is-more beauty can be described in a single, inelegant term: site-specific. Located 58 miles southwest of Chicago, this white, precisely honed ...

Completed in 1951 and owned by the trust for the last decade, Farnsworth House sits near the bank of the Fox River in Plano, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago—and is already on stilts.

The stakes of what happens next extend far beyond the Farnsworth House’s sylvan riverfront site in Kendall County, 58 miles southwest of Chicago. The idea behind the planned state purchase ...

60 miles southwest of Chicago, an architectural masterpiece shares the banks of the Fox River with potential sites of our most ancestral inhabitants. "It was Edith Farnsworth's country house.

Get a glimpse inside the Mies van der Rohe’s celebrated Farnsworth House in Plano during special ... This is just a new, unique way to do it.” Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see ...

3 The Farnsworth House became the world’s fanciest pet project. The doctor intended to spend $8,000 to $10,000. In the end, it cost around $74,000 (equal to about 10 times that today).

The Farnsworth House itself takes shape as a skeletal example ... of grappling with what it means to be alive. A move to Chicago might be better for Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece.

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