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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Rediscovering plans for a nearly unknown, never-realized Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building seems improbable. “It’s like finding a Rembrandt in a desk drawer,” says one of the architect’s ...

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 ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a giant of 20th century architecture whose hard-edged modern buildings dot the map of Chicago, lived in a building that was definitely not miesian. From 1940, three years ...

In 2004, months after orchestrating the audacious $7.5 million bid to purchase and preserve Mies van der Rohe’s famed Farnsworth House, David Bahlman, who served as president of Landmarks ...

I am sure this is no mere coincidence. Just as Mies van der Rohe left his patron to navigate the interior of the Farnsworth House according to their preferences, so Brown has allowed us to create a ...

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.

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.