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For the 70th anniversary of the (formerly known as) Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s first realized home in the United States and a National Historic Landmark, is being rebranded to better ...

A pair of glass and black steel apartment buildings on Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville are so strongly identified with their architect they are often simply called “the Mies buildings,” but Ludwig ...

Spend some time in nature, celebrate the season, tour the iconic house, or find the perfect gift this holiday season at the Edith Farnsworth House. Thanksgiving week is an ideal time to gather family ...

Whenever the Edith Farnsworth House is discussed, written about or photographed, the home — a white single-story modernist steel-and-glass pavilion — commands the spotlight. But the residence is only ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. This spring, with the 20th anniversary of the rescue of a ...

Musician, translator, doctor, and modern architecture patron: All four descriptors apply to a brilliant if overlooked woman who was born well over 100 years ago, in 1903. But Edith Farnsworth, whose ...

The Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece in Chicago’s far southwest suburbs, needs no introduction. As graceful as a Greek temple and as serene as a Shinto shrine, the ...

During a visit to the latest exhibition at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, visitors are more likely to encounter a deer (as this writer did) than a single Mies-designed Brno ...

On Nov. 17, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, took a new name: the Edith Farnsworth House. This five-letter change marks a small but significant gesture in the decades-long effort to tell the ...

Dr. Edith Farnsworth’s chaise lounge chairs, designed by Bruno Mathsson, are seen at the Farnsworth House in Plano. The Farnsworth House, shown June 30, 2020, is opening an exhibition, “Edith ...

The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of ...