For decades one of the most famous homes in America has been threatened by flooding, and now the trust that owns it says it’s time for action. One controversial solution involves moving Ludwig Mies ...

Can you imagine Jeff Bridges playing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? Of course you can. Luckily, for those who bemusingly can’t, a film about the trials and tribulations behind Mies’s magnum opus dwelling, ...

Musician, translator, doctor, and modern architecture patron: All four descriptors apply to a brilliant if overlooked woman who was born well over 100 years ago, in 1903. But Edith Farnsworth, whose ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ralph Fiennes are starring in the independent drama “Farnsworth House.” Gyllenhaal will play Dr. Edith ...

Mies van der Rohe's famous Farnsworth House has officially been renamed the Edith Farnsworth House, in honour of the woman behind the project's commission. The Plano, Illinois home, one of the ...

2014 Farnsworth House INsite project by Luftwerk, a precursor to this year's October installation of Geometry of Light. (Photography by Kate Joyce, Mel and Phil Theobald, Tom Rossiter, courtesy ...

For the 70th anniversary of the (formerly known as) Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s first realized home in the United States and a National Historic Landmark, is being rebranded to better ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, certainly the most flood-prone site in the National Trust for Preservation’s storied portfolio, has once again found itself threatened following ...

Flooding from heavy rain is once again threatening Mies van der Rohe’s iconic 1951 Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, its executive director reports. Floodwaters from the Fox River inundated the ...