Posted on 12/17/2019
Plano, Illinois, is a long way from the European birthplace of architectural Modernism, both geographically and culturally, and yet it’s right here, amid an idyllic pastoral setting, where one of the most iconic modernist houses can be found: Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
Hovering above the forest floor, the pioneering steel-and-glass house, which has been accessible to the public since 2004, is the apotheosis of Modernism’s less-is-more creed but it’s also a building inextricably tied to its surroundings. This complementary relationship between building and site was uncannily explored in “Geometry of Light”, a three-night, light and soun...