New book revisits Mies van der Rohe’s groundbreaking Farnsworth House The 270-page coffee table book also brings to the fore Dr. Edith Farnsworth, the wealthy kidney specialist who commissioned ...

Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House Is Getting Temporarily Redecorated Thanks to an effort to look more closely at the female force of nature who originally owned it By Madeleine Luckel July 9 ...

Though admired today as a masterpiece, the house’s early days were marked by controversy and legal disputes between Mies and Farnsworth, who criticized the house’s livability and cost overruns.

Arguably Mies’ American masterpiece. Designed with Philip Johnson, this Park Avenue tower is modernism fully manifest: a ...

In May, the innovative glass house marks 20 years open to the public. Putting Edith Farnsworth side by side with Mies van der Rohe in the story has been a major change in that time.

When Mies van der Rohe Went on Trial In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a tale of modernism, a broken heart and a transparent house with too few closets.

The 1951 Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., a classic of Modernist residential architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was badly flooded last month and is just now beginning to dry out.

In 1952, an IU fraternity hired Mies, a pioneer of modernist architecture, to design a residence building near the intersection of 3rd Street and Indiana Avenue south of Dunn’s Woods.

Designed in the early 1960s by a student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and updated carefully by the present owners, this house is going on the market at just under $1.1 million. Take a photo tour ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe viewed the Farnsworth House as the embodiment of his aesthetic, at a cost to its practicality and habitability, according to Alex Beam’s new book, “Broken Glass ...

The Mies Award, which is presented biennially and comes with a 60,000 euro cash prize, will be bestowed to Farrell and McNamara on May 12 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

HOUSE PROUD: PERSONAL VISIONS; In a Glass Box, Secrets Are Hard to Keep David W Dunlap article on Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill, an iconic house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; notes his recent ...