Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (1 of 3)

The saga of Mies van der Rohe's glass house in Plano, Illinois

[@berlingoski]

Thanks for sharing this video and thanks Illinois for helping preserve such a wonderful masterpiece.

[@Houry247]

Why is the love affair so important to talk about? let's focus on the building.

[@EfrainMcshell]

i love, ilove, ilove , iiiii love this house...

[@MrLeopodstanicky]

Today I am about to make a lecture on Tugendhat house in Brno, visit if you can, this one is second to none, maybe because it is so unique

[@christopherhasty8697]

As a funny side note, you can still buy most of the furniture in there from Knoll. It's expensive though.

[@sharksport01]

Why is that funny?

[@MazyLoron]

It's remarkable how much the concept behind the design resembles the Zen aesthetic in classical Japanese architecture. Mansions would be extremely open to blur the distinction between inside and out and used a series of removable screens to break up the space. And they'd be centered around a garden with a pond. These ponds were so large, I heard one emperor (I think he was an emperor) would hold boat races on the pond in the garden his mansion surrounded.

[@estanisarena901]

It is not sold to us as the perfect-living house. You have to see it with eyes of the 20s... otherwise the critique has no sense. Cold in winter? It's just a weekend-summer house... Pay attention at least before criticizing something with those arguments.

[@justinrivera201]

The problem with being ahead of one’s time is the work is never appreciated (and is often ridiculed) in its current existing time. Mies challenged, and that takes guts.

[@scorpiogirl39]

I think that this house was intended to look at. I don't think that either Mies or Edith thought about the practicality of a glass house.

[@Sanpedranoazul]

I´d be excited to visit it!!!

[@michaelepp6212]

Is that house a wild-bird-killing machine?

[@antoniosoul]

Good news everyone, it's the Farnsworth house!

[@OldTimesMan]

absolutely wonderful!!!

[@samirchaalal]

A kid dream... really ! God, domestic architecture is sure one wonderfull art

[@br2266]

"charismatic man such as mies van derroh" and zooms in on an old old old looking version of him. LOL.

[@ArkhitektonIV]

@scorpiogirl39 There's not much sustainable design involved for either seasons. It's not meant to be enjoyed from within ;-)

[@JA-eq5um]

hahahahahaahahahahahahaha 7:52 . that's a face only a mother could love

[@Joshua-fg8mz]

Thank you!

[@estanisarena901]

if you don't understand his personal life and his historical context, you'll never understand his architechture... you should know that by now

[@scorpiogirl39]

I heard that it it was freezing in the winter and hot as hell in the summer.

[@ddsdsfsfasblbllblbl839]

Yes

[@ddsdsfsfasblbllblbl839]

Now it is just a statue of modern architecture

[@tertommy]

read From Bauhaus to Our House - Tom Wolfe

[@yeungeddie]

Interesting

[@Nostalg1a]

The world wouldn’t really miss this glass box. All that money could have been put to better use, but oh well that’s rich people for you I guess.

[@AgsInMyDreams]

I lived in a house that was very similar to this-A mid-century modern home built by one of FLW's students. How is it heat efficient with exposure below, etc?

[@jasonmarrokrico9444]

The floors contain copper pipes that heat the travertine with radient heat. This helps keep the chill away from the exposure under the house.

[@erinmullin370]

who wrote this? or narrated? where was it originally shown?

[@Cherriez21sky55]

Erin Mullin It was a PBS special, it is called Saved from the Wrecking Ball

[@estanisarena901]

he tells that himself in books and interviews

[@Eric-qm5xw]

Before it’s time but ultimately compromised…

[@OliviaGrace777]

Dreams and visions often prove very impractical when it comes to architecture. This story proves that narrative precisely.

[@matthewbustamonte9147]

You seem pretty hell-bent on hating on Mies. If you refer to someone of his illustrious seminal historical stature as an "idiot" simply because you don't enjoy his or her style/approach/philosophy, you reveal either your own ignorance, arrogance or both.

[@4ever242]

Nice, but his Villa Tugendhat in Brno is better... But O.K., these houses probably cannot be compared because the Czech one is huge, so it had to be much more expensive- It was a villa of a Jewish billionaire.

[@Zauberhase100]

Das hat schon was, aber ich glaube, man darf keine Probleme haben, wenn man dort lebt, denn dann könnte man einen zuviel bekommen.

[@estanisarena901]

Temperature in Plano in summer? Define what's architecthture for you?

[@MrRichygm]

Whatever Edith Farnsworth paid for this house, it was not enough. She was not getting a housel she was getting immortality.

[@Vot63]

Too hot in summer, too cold in winter, no security, no privacy, leaks, exorbitantly expensive. Looks great in photographs. This is a sculpture. This is not a house.This is fine for a private house, if you like that kind of thing, but this nonfunctional tripe was inflicted on a grand scale on people who were not rich and didn't like it, to the lasting detriment of many beautiful cities.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

Ahhhh a peeping Tom... Where? Everywhere

[@ddsdsfsfasblbllblbl839]

True but it isnt quite in middle of a town

[@bethbartlett5692]

These designs represent my familiar sense of Orgin, having been the Architecture at the era of my birth, and the routine of my experiences. In hospitals, doctors/medical offices, businesses, industry, and even in entertainment, movies, TV shows, cartoons, coloring books, etc. Frank Lloyd Wright having similar, probably originating, this design, and although each retaining their own values, they both give a sense of "where we are going", yet, we seemed to have regressed between 1963 and present. The true energy created by a man's decision to orchestrate the death of a strong and focused President, and to demonstrate the ease with which the "Scapegoat" offers his/theirs camouflage. We are back on track now, and that will emerge in reality as this decade proceeds. Learn the "Universal Law of Attraction" as it is *How* you are creating your Reality and you have a *Choice to create it to your Desire.*

[@Vot63]

It has to be fit for purpose. Function should not be subservient to form. The modernists build constructions that projected their understanding of functionality. This was an illusion of function, despite their strident proclamations to the contrary. BTW, architecture is not personally defined, it is architecture or it is not architecture. This house is bad architecture for obvious reasons.

[@mostafabelli9031]

الدحيح

[@CEOkiller]

no walking around naked in that house!

[@sharksport01]

Wanna bet.

[@Neolitico9]

who cares about the personal life? More arquitecture!

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

RT

[@matthewbustamonte9147]

:D

[@ouroborosnagyok9306]

"He was a very attracting man" yeah I'm going to have to pull out the bullshit card on this one

[@wisemanner5012]

Not to you, perhaps, But many women are attracted to men of note, influence, fame, genius, and accomplishment. They don't want to vanish into the world of mediocrity in which most men live.

[@tahaalshirbeny483]

بعتني عليكم الدحيح🤣

[@ghatfansafi731]

This house is solely for show, it is not safe for elderly, disabled, children, women with high heel. The seating area looks like a clinic reception. It has no linking with regular human living habits.

[@Vot63]

"Too hot in summer", isn't a valid criticism of a "summer-house"? That observation totally sums up how divorced from reality the architectural ghetto is Estanis. The house was a total failure. It is bad architecture by any standard; good sculpture, but bad architecture.

[@NoteFromSELF]

He was a "very attractive man?" No.

[@wisemanner5012]

Not to you, perhaps, But many women are attracted to men of note, influence, fame, genius, and accomplishment. They don't want to vanish into the world of mediocrity in which most men live.

[@T.Q.]

This is disrespectul to such a great designer/architect. I dont think he would be happy about the intrusion on his personal affairs as portrayed in this video.