Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, on the banks of the Fox River in Plano Credit: Deanna Isaacs For the past couple months the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been conducting a ...

In between these columns are floor-to-ceiling windows around the entire house, opening up the rooms to the woods around it. Save this picture! The windows are what provide the beauty of Mies' idea ...

Set in Detroit's Lafayette Park, this town house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is a meticulous piece of mid-20th century architecture, updated with a cool Ikea kitchen. Ludwig ("Less is more ...

Wanting to raise money to maintain two modernist landmarks—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut ...

It’s a good thing that Mies Van der Rohe’s iconic 1951 Farnsworth House is built on stilts! Just a couple of days ago, the nearby Fox River flooded its banks due to continuous rain and above ...

(It leaked during the trial.) The house wasn’t just any old house by any old architect, though. It was Mies van der Rohe’s exquisite Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., completed in 1951.

At Mies van der Rohe‘s Farnsworth House–built on a flood plain in Plano, Illinois–preservationists are desperate to ensure that future floods don’t wash away one of the most famous ...

One controversial solution involves moving Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House, which sits on a floodplain in Plano, Illinois, to another location on the 62-acre estate.

The use of color throughout the domestic environment therefore shifts traditional spatial perceptions of the home, celebrating Mies’ modular prototype for prefab housing.