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    This document provides a case study analysis of the Farnsworth House and Glass House, two modernist homes designed by renowned architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. It examines the architectural features of each home, how they related to nature, and how they reflected the personal lives and philosophies of their clients, Edith Farnsworth and Philip Johnson. Criticisms of both homes are also presented, addressing views that they promoted unlivability and lacked privacy due to their open floor plans and extensive use of glass.

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    This document provides a case study analysis of the Farnsworth House and Glass House, two modernist homes designed by renowned architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. It examines the architectural features of each home, how they related to nature, and how they reflected the personal lives and philosophies of their clients, Edith Farnsworth and Philip Johnson. Criticisms of both homes are also presented, addressing views that they promoted unlivability and lacked privacy due to their open floor plans and extensive use of glass.

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    This document provides a case study analysis of the Farnsworth House and Glass House, two modernist homes designed by renowned architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. It examines the architectural features of each home, how they related to nature, and how they reflected the personal lives and philosophies of their clients, Edith Farnsworth and Philip Johnson. Criticisms of both homes are also presented, addressing views that they promoted unlivability and lacked privacy due to their open floor plans and extensive use of glass.

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    Case Study Analysis:

    Farnsworth House &


    The Glass House

    Jenny Diaz
    FARNSWORTH HOUSE

    Mies Van Der Rohe - Architect


    Edith Farnsworth - Client
    Plano Illinois
    Elevated (avoid flooding from near by river)
    Architecture & Nature
    A place to escape to and relax

    49
    Built 1949
    51
    Built 1951

    GLASS HOUSE

    Philip Johnson - Architect


    Philip Johnson - Client
    New Canan Connecticut
    Planted on ground
    Brown brick & black steel frame
    A place to be comfortable as oneself
    "Mies talks about "free space", but his space is
    very fixed". (3.13)
    "Promoting the mystical idea that "less is
    more"...they are promoting unlivabiltiy,
    stripped-down emptiness, lack of storage space
    and therefroe lack of possessions". (3.13)

    "The guest house appears to be a windowless


    bunker a defensible space of intimacy as well as
    a "closet". (3.22)
    "This house with its four walls of glass, I feel like a
    prowling animal, always on the alert". (3.13)

    "A form of exhibitionism". (3.17)


    "The house appeared to be a fish bowl in which
    his life was put on display for all to see". (3.22)
    "I can't even put a clothes hanger in my house
    without considering how it affects everything from
    the outside". (3.13)

    "The idea of a glass house, where somebody just


    might be looking-naturally, you don't want them
    to be looking. But what about it? That little edge
    of danger in being caught". (3.17)
    "Farnsworth had very little of a "private life" to
    conceal: as a single woman, the only thing that
    could possibly be worth hiding was her night
    gown, the sign for her body". (3.16)

    "The cylindrical brick chimney at the core of the


    glass house makes an obvious & clearly ironic
    reference to the architecture of the traditional
    American family home and to the sentimentalized
    view of domesticity". (3.22)
    "Unlike Johnson's glass house, which features
    clusters of large and small objects throughout
    the interior and doorways on all four walls, the
    interior of the Farnsworth house in unrelenting in
    its ordered geometry - & this was something
    Farnsworth discovered only through living in the
    house over time". (3.17)

    "For Johnson, who unlike Farnsworth had a


    sophisticated grasp of architectural language,
    there was no question that each element in the
    design had a carefully constructed meaning".
    (3.22)
    "A bitterly fought struggle over who was, and
    who was not, a "normal" American, a member of a
    family, living life in the "right" way. Just as Edith
    Farnsworth confronted these issues, so did Philip
    Johnson". (3.21)
    "Service core becomes a diagram of the house
    as a machine, the kitchen and the back-to-back
    bathrooms stand in a logical, utilitarian
    relationship to one another". (3.24)

    "Metaphoric, discursive & picturesque, the


    domestic landscape encourage movement
    through the space". (3.24)

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