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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Plano, Illinois, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1951 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMies van der Rohe, Ludwigen_US
dc.date1951en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-19T20:34:00Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T20:34:00Z
dc.date.issued1951en_US
dc.identifier192020en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1340en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99305
dc.descriptionView looking east under the house, showing the concrete floor slabs and the "core" that holds mechanical/service functions; Following a number of unrealized projects, the first built example of Mies van der Rohe's single-storey clear-span building was the Farnsworth House, Plano, IL --one of the best-known houses of the 20th century. The house, which is raised above the ground against the Fox River's spring flooding, comprises a classically proportioned and finely crafted white steel structure with rectangular floor and roof planes cantilevering beyond externally positioned 'I' section column--the space between being subdivided into interior and exterior living areas. In the interior area (enclosed by large sheets of plate-glass and paved with Roman Travertine marble), living, sleeping and kitchen spaces are subtly defined around a free-standing wood-panelled core housing bathrooms and services. The exterior area, also paved with Travertine, forms a protected terrace, and this is connected by a flight of steps to a lower open floating terrace and similar steps to the ground. There is no suggestion of a contrived formal relationship between the house and its natural surroundings, and the building's occurrence in the landscape would seem almost fortuitous were it not for the harmony achieved between it and the terrain. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/13/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; Travertine marbleen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectdwellingen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titleFarnsworth Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MVR-FH-E1en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayLudwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969)en_US


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