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Farnsworth House, Illinois : Architecture Information + Photos

Key Mies van der Rohe Building, Plano, Illinois, USA



Key American Building

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
1950
Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Farnsworth House
Farnsworth House image © gm+ad architects

Farnsworth House Move

Director of the Farnsworth House, Whitney French, is considering how to protect the building from floods. The Fox River is close by and the lawns above which this Modern home 'floats' are increasingly prone to flooding. According to Fred Bernstein writing for archnewsnow.com the Farnsworth House has been "flooded at least four times (three of them in the last 13 years). The most recent flood, in September 2008, caused at least $500,000 in damage, mostly to interior woodwork". Currently when floods occur the Farnsworth House contents are protected but the building itself is left prone. So proposals to move the Farnsworth permanently, or to provide discreet protection such as pop-up glass walls around the perimeter, are being discussed.

Farnsworth House

Address: 14520 River Road, Plano, Illinois, United states of America
Date: 1950
Location: 60 miles from Chicago
Directions: head southwest from Chicago

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Mies van der Rohe building - photographs © gm+ad architects

Client: home built for Dr. Edith Farnsworth

Edith sold the Farnsworth House in 1972 to Lord Palumbo from England

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Mies van der Rohe building - images © gm+ad architects



American Buildings

Farnsworth House architect: Mies van der Rohe

Illinois Buildings by the Farnsworth House architect

860-880 Lake Shore Apartments, Chicago
1948-51
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Chicago
photo : William Zbaren
860-880 Lake Shore Drive

Chicago Federal Center, Chicago
1974

Crown Hall + IIT Masterplan, Chicago
1940-

IBM Building, Chicago
1971

 


 

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Farnsworth House - Building Link

A Modern home, with simple rectilinear styling sitting aloof from the landscape - just like the Farnsworth House - is Johnson House, New Canaan - 1949 by Modern architect Philip Johnson : Connecticut Architecture



 
 
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