The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence and is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an important and influential project for Johnson and his associate Richard Foster, and for modern architecture. The building is an essay in minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection. The house is mostly hidden from the public view.

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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 is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an important and influential project for Johnson and his associate Richard Foster, and for modern architecture. The building is an essay in minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection. The house is mostly hidden from the public view. It is located behind a stone wall at the edge of a crest in Johnson’s estate overlooking a pond. Johnson's rambling 47-acre (190,000 m) estate also includes ten other buildings that Johnson either built or refined including the gate house ("Da Monsta", 1995), painting gallery (1965), sculpture gallery (1970) and guest house (1949-1950). The exterior sides of the Glass House are charcoal-painted steel and glass. The brick floor is about 10 inches above the ground. The interior is open with the space divided by low walnut cabinets; a brick cylinder contains the bathroom and is the only object to reach floor to ceiling. The house builds on ideas of German architects from the 1920s ("Glasarchitektur"). In a house of glass, the views of the landscape are its real “walls”. The house is often compared to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. The house was the place of Philip Johnson's passing on January 25, 2005 at the age of 98. After Johnson's death ownership of the Glass House passed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which opened it to visitors in April 2007.
  • Das Glass House oder Johnson House ist ein Wohngebäude, das der US-amerikanische Architekt Philip Johnson im Jahr 1949 zusammen mit Richard Foster errichtete.
  • La maison de verre fut construite par Philip Johnson et son collaborateur Richard Foster en 1949 à New Canaan dans le Connecticut aux États-Unis. Avec sa maison de verre, Philip Johnson, en continuateur des recherches de l'architecture de son époque et notamment du Bauhaus, réalise un fantasme de l'architecture moderne : la transparence.
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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 is a masterpiece in the use of glass. It was an important and influential project for Johnson and his associate Richard Foster, and for modern architecture. The building is an essay in minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection. The house is mostly hidden from the public view.
  • Das Glass House oder Johnson House ist ein Wohngebäude, das der US-amerikanische Architekt Philip Johnson im Jahr 1949 zusammen mit Richard Foster errichtete.
  • La maison de verre fut construite par Philip Johnson et son collaborateur Richard Foster en 1949 à New Canaan dans le Connecticut aux États-Unis. Avec sa maison de verre, Philip Johnson, en continuateur des recherches de l'architecture de son époque et notamment du Bauhaus, réalise un fantasme de l'architecture moderne : la transparence.
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