The only residence built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in America, Farnsworthouse exemplifies both the central tenet of the International Style bynverting the conventions of traditional architecture, and of Mies' ownesign philosophy as it had evolved over the preceding four decades.;ommissioned by Dr Edith Farnsworth to be used as a weekend country retreat,he house was conceived by Mies as an envelope of glass and steel floatingver the Illinois Fox River flood plain. Its spare interior - an integratediving space pared down to the last detail - was intended to enable a simpler,leaner and healthier lifestyle.;With detailed drawings and speciallyommissioned photography, this addition to the award-winning "Architecture inetail" series provides an in-depth and richly illustrated account of thiscon of 20th-century Modernist architecture. It documents how, even beforets completion in 1951, architect and client had fallen out over expenses andractical defects of the house. By the time it was sold to Lord Palumbo in972, Edith Farnsworth had changed many of the interior elements dictated so
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