Text description provided by the architects. The Farnsworth House, built between 1945 and 1951 for Dr. Edith Farnsworth as a weekend retreat, is a platonic perfection of order gently placed in spontaneous nature in Plano, Illinois. Just right outside of Chicago in a 10-acre secluded wooded site with the Fox River to the south, the glass pavilion takes full advantage of relating to its natural surroundings, achieving Mies concept of a strong relationship between the house and nature.
The single-story house consists of eight I-shaped steel columns that support the roof and floor frameworks, and therefore are both structural and expressive. In between these columns are floor-to-ceiling windows around the entire house, opening up the rooms to the woods around it.
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CHICAGO â Chicago isnât just an architectural capital because of its great buildings. Itâs a vital forum of ideas about what makes architecture great.
A case in point: this yearâs crop of recommended design books. Theyâre all related to the city and its suburbs, but have much broader appeal.
âChicagoâs Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American Cityâ by Carl Smith
The grim toll of the Great Chicago Fire still boggles the mind â more than 2,000 acres and 18,000 buildings burned, about 90,000 people left homeless, 122 miles of sidewalks and 2,162 street lamps destroyed. Yet Chicagoâs post-Fire recovery was just as startling. Just 22 years later, it put on a spectacular worldâs fair.