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No. 00239

Landmark All-Glass Modernist House

Holder
Farnsworth House (architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Country
United States
Date
1951
Location
USA

About this record

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, completed in 1951 on the banks of the Fox River in Illinois, uses all-glass walls supported by exposed steel columns, a defining structure of architectural modernism.