The Philip Johnson Glass House was a remarkable achievement when it was completed in 1949. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (Ill.), its exterior walls are of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. It began a fifty-year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas through the addition of many new "pavilions"—Guest House, Lake Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Studio, and Visitors Pavilion—and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding forty-acre landscape.
Visionary Glass House
in New Canaan, CT,
in New Canaan, CT,
designed1945-49 by architect, Philip Johnson
& David Whitney
& David Whitney
It was just his birthday too, I think. Love the glass house as well...as long as you don't have neighbors. :)
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine the amount of nose prints we'd have to clean off the glass with 6 animals!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a nice place, I would like to have my office like that specially if it doesn't rain a lot there.
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