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The Architect · Caleb · Chicago

Farnsworth House

Plano · Modern Architecture · $$$

It's a pilgrimage, an hour out, and worth every mile. One glass room floating above a floodplain — architecture reduced to almost nothing.

Mies's 1951 glass box on stilts over the Fox River — the purest single-room modern house ever built. A drive from the city.

— Caleb, The Architect
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