Angered by its exorbitant heating costs and problems with bug infestations, its commissioner launched a failed lawsuit against the architect.
Angered by its exorbitant heating costs and problems with bug infestations, its commissioner launched a failed lawsuit against the architect. The controversy helped inspire a scathing April, 1953 editorial in House Beautiful, which implied that communist forces were driving the architect and his minimalist International Style. Often contrasted with the New Canaan glass house constructed by the architect's colleague, Philip Johnson, this is, FTP, what steel framed glass residence in Plano, Illinois, named for the female doctor who commissioned it, and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
Angered by its exorbitant heating costs and problems with bug infestations, its commissioner launched a failed lawsuit against the architect.
{Farnsworth House}