Farnsworth House,Plano, USA

Farnsworth House

(Plano, USA) 1945-51

#Private  

Farnsworth house at dusk

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#Private

Farnsworth House

(Plano, USA) 1945-51

Built in a ‘secluded wood’ (Gossel and Zimmerman, 2015), designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, for Dr Edith Farnsworth, who wanted to ‘spend more time in a relaxed and solitary atmosphere’ (Farnsworth house - architecture of the world, 1950). The house was used as her weekend get-away, so that she could practice her violin and write poetry in her one-bedroom retreat. Even though the house is mostly built from windows, the location of the property is what makes the house private, Surrounded by trees, this is the boundary of the house not the glass walls. The location gives a sense of isolation.

‘His idea for shading and privacy was through the many trees that were located on the private site.’ (Perez, 2010).

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Bibliography:

Gossel, P. and Zimmerman, C. (2015) Mies van der Rohe. Germany: Taschen GmbH.

Perez, A. (2010) AD classics: The Farnsworth house / Mies van der Rohe. Available at

http://www.archdaily.com/59719/ad-classics-the-farnsworth-house-mies-van-der-rohe (Accessed: 29 February 2016).

Farnsworth house - architecture of the world (1950) Available at: https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Farnsworth_House (Accessed: 29 February 2016).

Images : Whitney French, Farnsworth House