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Article: Bauhaus in your house?(campaign to make Illinois Ludwig Mies van der Rohe house into historic site)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 21, 2001
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In 1946, nephrologist Edith Farnsworth decided to build a small weekend retreat along the Fox River, just west of Chicago. To design the place, she chose Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the modern master whose belief that "less is more" had become a battle cry among forward-thinking architects. What Mies created was an International Style utopian dream: a flat-roofed box containing just one single open space, enclosed entirely in floor-to-ceiling windows (a brick core shelters bathrooms and closets). Since the Fox River tended to flood every spring, he set the house on eight steel stilts, 5 feet aboveground.
Photographs of the house were published around the world. But ...