and in 2008 when Hurricane Ike prompted the National Trust to suspend public tours for several months while the building underwent extensive repairs. Floodwater at the Farnsworth House ...

The new book Almost Nothing sheds new light on Dr. Edith Farnsworth, the Chicago doctor who commissioned architect Mies van ...

Both the Pavilion and the Farnsworth House, with their open, overtly modernist massings, appear to be viewed through an x-ray after Luftwerk’s illumination, exposing the bones of the building ...

The Farnsworth House was controversial ... the 38-story Seagram Building on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets. His final project, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie art museum, was completed ...

Long known as Farnsworth House, it officially became the Edith ... The tour starts in a separate building, with a film and exhibits that whet your appetite. Then you walk about half a mile through ...

The Farnsworth House, designed as a weekend residence for ... The single-story, single-room structure, a simple rectangular frame of steel and glass, rests on the thinnest of supports, seeming ...

The Farnsworth House was built to be a purposefully skeletal structure, which lets the surrounding environment be less of a backdrop and more of an amenity to the home. In “The Last of Animal ...

Enclosure and structure are totally integrated. Technology and environmental control push the limits of what was available. The Farnsworth House reaches such a simplicity that there is nothing ...

the Farnsworth House is recognized worldwide as a masterpiece of International Style of architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed and constructed the 1,500-square-foot structure between 1945 ...

Farnsworth House sits near the bank of the Fox River in Plano, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago—and is already on stilts. Aware that he was building on a flood plain, Mies perched it five ...

The building is in poor shape ... from any adjacent development and selling the rest of the land. The Farnsworth House is a work of genius–one of many architectural jewels in the Chicago ...