the floor plan is completely open exploiting true minimalism. With the Farnsworth house constructed about 100 feet from the Fox River, Mies recognized the dangers of flooding. He designed the ...

At Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House–built on ... The trust is considering a daring plan that would temporarily move the house from its site, build a pit beneath it and insert hydraulic ...

One controversial solution involves moving Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House ... she adds. But the plan to move the house isn’t without critics, including Mies’s grandson ...

The essence of the Farnsworth House’s elegant ... and glass is all the more striking because architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe poetically contrasted it with its colorful, ever-changing ...

Flooding from heavy rain is once again threatening Mies van der Rohe’s iconic 1951 Farnsworth House ... to within a foot of the house’s stilt-hoisted single-floor living area, says Scott ...

Credit: Joshi Radin Nestled along the Fox River within the sprawling woods of Plano, Illinois, resides Mies van der Rohe’s coveted Edith Farnsworth House ... perimeter floor-to-ceiling windows ...

Provided Share In 2004, months after orchestrating the audacious $7.5 million bid to purchase and preserve Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth ... house, Mr. Bahlman hatched a plan to secure ...

Although the term glass house has become ubiquitous in describing a type of modernist building, the idea was pioneered by Mies van der Rohe. In 1945, Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago nephrologist ...