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Johnson’s Glass House
While the impracticalities of life in a glass box rendered the Farnsworth House an unlikely model for the mainstream housing market, the concept fascinated many architects. In 1949 Philip Johnson (b. 1906) began work on his own residence in New Canaan, Connecticut. In some ways, the Farnsworth and Johnson houses studies in contrast. Painted white [...]
American Architecture
American architecture in the first four decades of this century, if perceived as having any continuity at all, is held together by the least typical of all its architects, Frank Lloyd Wright. In the closing decades of the previous century, the multi-storey commercial building had not only been invented in technical terms, but also developed [...]
Pre-Columbian Architecture
In the history of architecture, Pre-Columbian architecture reached its greatest level of achievement in two cultural zones: Meso-America (comprising much of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region. It was a unique, symbolic architecture, always based around ceremonial centres. These two geographical environments were very different, but in both cases exterior spaces were adroitly [...]
