"Grand ideas, you know, we keep high in the sky when we are working. We don’t want them to come down. We are ourselves surprised at what comes out of it." – Mies van der Rohe, 1955

 
Built by the great German architect between 1946 and 1951 for Dr. Farnsworth in Plano, Illinois and intended as a weekend escape, Farnsworth house is a manifesto of Mies' concept of space, with a free floor plan which is more fluid and functional yet elegant and refined.

The architect did not want any filters between the house and the outside, so he designed it as a glass box immersed in the woods and suspended slightly above ground level on slender steel pillars.

 
 

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