The Edith Farnsworth house : architecture, preservation, culture. / txt
Michelangelo Sabatino, Scott Mehaffey, Dietrich Neumann, Ron Henderson, Hilary Lewis.
- 270 p. : ill. ; photo. ; plans ; col. ; 31cm. book
Foreword Putting Edith into the Farnsworth House Scott Mehaffey 8 -- Introduction Representation versus Reality Michelangelo Sabatino 14 -- The Edith Farnsworth House: Groundwork, 1945 – 1972 34 -- Technological Sublime: Designing and Building the Edith Farnsworth House Dietrich Neumann 98 -- Dream in the Shade of the Black Sugar Maple Ron Henderson 116 -- The Modern House in Chicago: Organic and (not or) Modern Michelangelo Sabatino 120 -- Patron Modern Architecture Excerpts from the Edith Farnsworth Memoirs 136 -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on the Edith Farnsworth House 162 -- Edith Farnsworth House Oral Histories 166 -- Lord Peter and Lady Hayat Palumbo 167 -- Dirk Lohan 176 -- The Edith Farnsworth House: Lives, 1972 – 2024 184 -- Lives of the Edith Farnsworth House: Preservation, Advocacy, and Stewardship Michelangelo Sabatino 246 -- Afterword -- Reflecting on Two Glass Houses Hilary Lewis 256 -- Acknowledgements 262 -- Contributors 264 -- Image Credits 265 -- Select Bibliography and Resources 266 -- Index 268 --
"One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that seems to float above its site, the Edith Farnsworth House had been legendary in the public imagination long before it could be widely accessed. This book charts the house's original design by Mies van der Rohe and periods of neglect, flooding, and new ownership by Lord Peter Palumbo. Now publicly accessible and celebrating twenty years of being owned and administered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this icon of modern architecture commissioned by client and patron Edith Farnsworth now gets its due. The Edith Farnsworth House is one of the most prized residences in modern architectural history, whose sometimes fraught history culminates in its publicly accessible life today"--
9781580936194 1580936199
ARCHITECTURE / General Buildings, structures, etc--Chicago, Ill. Farnsworth House--Plano, Ill. Farnsworth, Edith Modern movement--Architecture--Illinois Chicago