Althouse: The Glass House.

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The Glass House.

Conversations in Context: Paul Goldberger from The Glass House on Vimeo.

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edutcher म्हणाले...: OK, a free form house. Seems to me a log cabin does the same thing.

PS Needless to say, it's a good thing it's up on a hill in the middle of the woods.

You certainly can't walk around naked.

Or stow thrones.; २६/१२/११, ११:४८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: An interesting report of a visit to the Glass House. Complete with a 2-year wait to get tickets.

Peter; २६/१२/११, ११:५१ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: That seems to be a lot to do about a very little in new ideas.

Have they ever visited Biltmore House outside Asheville?; २६/१२/११, १२:२५ PM
mtrobertsattorney म्हणाले...: The stone wall is nice.; २६/१२/११, ५:०५ PM
Craig Howard म्हणाले...: That seems to be a lot to do about a very little in new ideas.

When the house was built, it was a new idea.; २६/१२/११, ५:३७ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Philip Johnson = Peter Keating.

Discuss.; २६/१२/११, ६:५० PM
Jim Lindgren म्हणाले...: Paul Goldberger says that he has been involved with the house for 40 years, since he visited it as a student in the early 1970s.

I too toured the house with a group of Yale students in 1971 or 1972. Indeed, Goldberger was probably in the group of about a dozen of us who followed our professor, Vincent Scully, on a tour of buildings in eastern NY and southwestern CT.

Philip Johnson hosted us that day. There was a fascinating underground painting gallery that the video clip didn't enter and a playful little optical illusion pavilion on a pond that was built at perhaps 2/3rds scale. (It made the pond look larger and farther away.)

We also saw some "new brutalism" buildings (perhaps by IM Pei) and a new, gorgeously odd little house by Robert Venturi.

Johnson's main glass house is beautiful, but it was obviously derivative of Mies.

Jim Lindgren
Northwestern University; २६/१२/११, ११:३६ PM
ganderson म्हणाले...: Vin Scully was an architecture prof? Who knew?; २७/१२/११, ६:१२ AM