The state of Illinois has declined to purchase a house designed by Mies van der Rohe that changed the way people looked at architecture a half-century ago. Now the house is up for sale. “Designed by Mies as a weekend retreat for the late Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago
nephrologist, the house is one of the finest realizations of Mies’ philosophy that less is more – a one-story structure, raised on white piers that frame a single room sheathed almost entirely in glass. The proportions are exquisite and, as Mies’ biographer Franz Schulze has written, the house recalls a Greek temple, standing in perfect, manmade counterpoint to its wooded natural setting.”
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