With the Farnsworth house constructed about 100 feet from the Fox River, Mies recognized the dangers of flooding. He designed the house at an elevation that he bellieved would protect it from the ...

One controversial solution involves moving Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House, which sits on a floodplain in Plano, Illinois, to another location on the 62-acre estate.

Y.C. Wong Share It’s a 60-mile haul from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to see the Edith Farnsworth House, the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed residence built along the Fox River. But it’s ...

See About archive blog posts. The 1951 Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., a classic of Modernist residential architecture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was badly flooded last month and is just now ...

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, on the banks of the Fox River in Plano Credit: Deanna Isaacs For the past couple months the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been conducting a ...

In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a tale of modernism ... “Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies,” a new book, features residents of the architect ...

Wanting to raise money to maintain two modernist landmarks—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut ...

Farnsworth House sits far inland ... Article on plight of Togendhat Villa, house built in 1930 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Brno, in what is now the Czech Republic, for Grete and Fritz Tugendhat ...

In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a tale of modernism ... Mr. Summers worked with the Modernist master Mies van der Rohe before leaving the practice ...

In “Broken Glass,” Alex Beam revisits the saga of the Farnsworth House — a ... and planners are seeking to rebuild Mies van der Rohe’s Wolf House, an important transitional design.