Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (1 of 3)

The saga of Mies van der Rohe's glass house in Plano, Illinois

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[fixinah]

Sitting in light inside that house while its completely dark outside, oh hell no.

[Lloth Lloth]

who cares about the personal life? More arquitecture!

[scorpiogirl39]

I think that this house was intended to look at. I don't think that either Mies or Edith thought about the practicality of a glass house.

[Vot63]

And why does this idiot get credit for "anticipating the Fox river's annual swell"? It's an "annual swell", you don't have to be Nostradamus to know that it's coming.

[Vot63]

It has to be fit for purpose. Function should not be subservient to form. The modernists build constructions that projected their understanding of functionality. This was an illusion of function, despite their strident proclamations to the contrary.

BTW, architecture is not personally defined, it is architecture or it is not architecture. This house is bad architecture for obvious reasons.

[Estanis Shevchenko]

Temperature in Plano in summer? Define what's architecthture for you?

[Vot63]

"Too hot in summer", isn't a valid criticism of a "summer-house"? That observation totally sums up how divorced from reality the architectural ghetto is Estanis. The house was a total failure. It is bad architecture by any standard; good sculpture, but bad architecture.

[Estanis Shevchenko]

It is not sold to us as the perfect-living house. You have to see it with eyes of the 20s... otherwise the critique has no sense. Cold in winter? It's just a weekend-summer house... Pay attention at least before criticizing something with those arguments.

[Estanis Shevchenko]

he tells that himself in books and interviews

[Estanis Shevchenko]

if you don't understand his personal life and his historical context, you'll never understand his architechture... you should know that by now

[Vot63]

Too hot in summer, too cold in winter, no security, no privacy, leaks, exorbitantly expensive. Looks great in photographs. This is a sculpture. This is not a house.This is fine for a private house, if you like that kind of thing, but this nonfunctional tripe was inflicted on a grand scale on people who were not rich and didn't like it, to the lasting detriment of many beautiful cities.

[Caitlin dolls]

I lived in a house that was very similar to this-A mid-century modern home built by one of FLW's students. How is it heat efficient with exposure below, etc?