LONELY PLANET – On the list of must-see residential structures in the United States — a list that includes Fallingwater, Monticello, the Winchester House, Hearst Castle and even the ranch and cape prefabs of Levittown — Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., is perhaps the most iconic, and the one that should be at the top of the list for devotees of modern architecture. Built in 1948, this serene 56-foot-by-32-foot rectangle of glass and steel is widely considered one of the most influential and elegantly designed buildings of the 20th century. Like fellow architect Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., from whose template Johnson borrowed, the Glass House revolutionized ideas of the sanctity of home, hearth and privacy and validated Le Corbusier’s notion of the house as a “machine for living.” Read Story
(Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., ushered the International Style into residential American architecture. Eirik Johnson)
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