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The house is an example of early use of industrial materials in home design, such as glass and steel. Johnson lived at the weekend retreat for 58 years; 45 years with his long time companion David Whitney , an art critic and curator who helped design the landscaping and largely collected the art displayed there.
The Maison de Verre (French for House of Glass) was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture , the house's design emphasized three primary traits: honesty of materials, variable transparency of forms, and juxtaposition of "industrial" materials and fixtures with a more traditional style of ...
Bill (1924–2001) and Ruth (born 1926) Lucas (née Harvey) were a husband and wife duo who together were accomplished Australian architects based in Sydney, best known for designing The Glass House (also known as the Lucas House [1]) in Castlecrag as their own private residence. [2]
The Glass House is a single-storey residence built over a steeply sloping bush site. One corner of the house barely touches the natural sandstone outcrops. The rest of the building and the decks are suspended over vegetation and rock outcrops. The rectangular plan is divided up into a grid of 1.1 square metres (12 square feet).
The house was constructed as a one-room weekend retreat in a rural setting in Plano, Illinois, about 60 miles (96 km) southwest of Chicago's downtown. The steel and glass house was commissioned by Edith Farnsworth. Mies created a 1,500-square-foot (140 m 2) structure that is widely recognized as an exemplar of International Style of architecture.
Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
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The Henry P. Glass House was built in 1948 and it still stands on its original site in Northfield, Illinois. In addition to running his own industrial design business, Glass convinced the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to create an industrial design department in 1946 where he served as a professor for more than twenty years.