Waxing Architecture
The incomprable Terry Teachout:
After Fallingwater, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, built in 1951, is probably the best-known modern house in America, if not the world. At first glance the two buildings appear to have nothing in common save their self-evident modernity. Yet Mies’ half-visible glass house and Frank Lloyd Wright’s massive cantilevered concrete slabs turn out to be not altogether dissimilar in both purpose and effect.