These photos were taken in July, 2018 on a 100 F. day. The main glass house is shown, as well as interior details and other properties on the building. The brick house was used for his private needs. Philip Johnson's Glass House is still considered to be the height of modern residential architecture. Because of the many unanticipated problems in the design (1/4" thick glass initially, easily broken; his failure to design barriers between wet and dry places, which lead to mildew, mold and decay; and his use of flat roofs in the snowy Connecticut climate, roofs. leaks, mold and mildew made sever‹›
Glass House

Philip Johnson

Exterior · New Canaan, United States · 1949

Photo: A. Latina Brown · 2018-07-09 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2482×1588

These photos were taken in July, 2018 on a 100 F. day. The main glass house is shown, as well as interior details and other properties on the building. The brick house was used for his private needs. Philip Johnson's Glass House is still considered to be the height of modern residential architecture. Because of the many unanticipated problems in the design (1/4" thick glass initially, easily broken; his failure to design barriers between wet and dry places, which lead to mildew, mold and decay; and his use of flat roofs in the snowy Connecticut climate, roofs. leaks, mold and mildew made sever

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