Here, they juxtapose two of Mies’s icons – the Farnsworth House, which stretches into landscape, and the Manhattan skyscraper, the Seagram Building.
In the 21st century, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critics Paul Goldberger and Blair Kamin have both declared the house a masterpiece of modern architecture.
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The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence, and "universally viewed as having been derived from" the Farnsworth House design, according to Alice T. Friedman.