Edith Farnsworth House

1:400 scale miniature paper model, about 3 inches wide

Architect Mies van der Rohe built this weekend retreat for Dr. Edith Farnsworth near the Fox River in Plano, Illinois from 1945-51. The 1,500 square-foot glass house, elegantly elevated above the ground, encompasses views of the surrounding forest and is a modernist masterpiece.

Read more:

• Visiting info for tours of the Farnsworth House
• Blair Kamin discovers some little-known secrets of the house
• Philip Johnson's Glass House was built at the same time period and is similar in design
• Twelve of the many buildings inspired by the Farnsworth House
• Yet another building inspired by the house is the glass garage pavilion from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, by Werner Blaser, Birkhäuser (1999)

How to build the Farnsworth House Order the postcard