Product Description: Launched in 1991, award-winning Architecture in Detail books focus on individual seminal buildings, celebrating their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. This book discusses the Farnsworth House as a seminal Modernist glass-and-steel house by Mies van der Rohe, one of the greatest twentieth-century architects...read more

Product Description: The only residence built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in America, Farnsworth House exemplifies both the central tenet of the International Style by inverting the conventions of traditional architecture, and of Mies' own design philosophy as it had evolved over the preceding four decades...read more

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Product Description: * First detailed technical guide to an innovative structural system* Provides fully illustrated case studies of eight recent examples* Britain and Germany lead the world in this field* Second volume in an enlightening and informative new series (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)