Treacherous Transparencies: Thoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit Farmsworth House,by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Actar, June 2016, 96 pages, $24.95.
In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, completed in 1951. “I was ready to admire it for its beauty, but I discovered so many things that made no sense,” Herzog later reported. Those discoveries are recounted in a compact volume, with text by Herzog and photographs by de Meuron.
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