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Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, exterior view in wooded setting.
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Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, exterior view in wooded setting.
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Title
Glass
House
,
New
Canaan
,
Connecticut
,
exterior
view
in
wooded
setting
.
Alternative Title
Johnson
House
;
Johnson's
Glass
House
.
Creator
Johnson, Philip (American architect, critic, and collector, 1906-2005)
Date
1949
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist
Theme
Architecture (object genre)
Houses
Buildings
Suburban houses
Owner-built houses
Dwellings
Avant-garde
Exterior views
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Eye-level views
Exterior walls
Walls
Landscapes (environments)
Bodies of water
Ponds
Pavilions (garden structures)
Trees
Plants (vegetation)
Vegetation
Woods (plant communities)
Forests
Subject
Architecture
Houses
Dwellings
Residential facilities
Buildings
Walls
Landscapes (Representations)
Bodies of water
Lakes & ponds
Pavilions
Trees
Plants
Forests
Description
"
Johnson's
Glass
House
, an
almost
entirely
transparent
composition
in
glass
and
steel
,
challenged
traditional
notions
of
house
as
shelter
. The
Classical
pavilion
set
in the
pond
(lower
right)
was
underscaled
to
create
the
illusion
of
distance.
"
(Caption
,
p.25)
Location Depicted
New Canaan (Conn.)
Connecticut
United States
Material
Glass (material)
Steel (alloy)
Metal
Work Type
Architecture
Houses
Buildings
Dwellings
Source
Stern, Robert A.M. Pride of Place: Building the American Dream. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; New York: American Heritage, 1986. (pp.[26-27])
Rights
Picture credit: Ezra Stoller Associates. Stern, Pride of Place: Copyright © 1986 Mobil Corporation, Malone Gill Productions Limited, and Robert A. M. Stern.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
319-08.jpg
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