From the archive: a brief history of the glass house

As part of our work Celebration 25. AnniversaryWe reproduce formative magazine stories before our website has been launched. This story has previously appeared in the show of the Pad Strate of August 2002.

1931: Maison de Verre, Paris, Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijovet

He was broken into the background of Leva Bank, this small building is designed to house a medical office and an apartment on the first floor. The walls are made of transparent glass bricks supported by a steel frame. Unlike later glass houses, this reveals a little life from within. This first glass house is nothing but teasing.

1934: Crystal house in the century Progress, Chicago, Illinois, George and William Keck

One of the 13 domains of the model was built along Lake Michigan, this world fair home Brothers Keck pointed to the path to the near future. His ground floor was coated with airy articulated glass for privacy. Tinted glass was used for the middle floor, and bistrog glass was used on the upper floor. A Buckminster Fuller The Dimaxian car was parked in the garage.

1947-48: Dover Sun House, Dover, Massachusetts, Maria Telkes and Eleanor Raimond

“Sun Kueen”, scientist Born Hungarian, who later designed solar oven, combined forces with new English architecture Eleanor Raimond to build the first house on intentional exploitation of solar power. The house received 80 percent of his heat from the Sun and Telkes tried to use Glauber salt to store the sun energy.

1959-60: Case Studio House # 22, Los Angeles, California, Pierre Koenig

Dahno minimalist design of the house built for Buck and Carlotta Stahl (which is still the owner) has done known by Julius Shulman Photograph of girls in white dresses, floats as astronauts above the Hollywood hill. Built of 20-foot wide plates at the point of steel frame, equipped with compact, free kitchen modules and fire, this House for studying case Creaft dived especially to urni tenants into a magnificent view.

1981: The glass and steel house, Chicago, Illinois, Krueck & Sekjecta

A Monthly The box was built at the moment when the high modernism was not on favorites: “I left architecture due to postmodernism,” said the architect Ronald Krueck. “Then I met this individual who was interested in the other aesthetics that was not popular at that time.” The client wanted a “Factory from the outside and Milan in 1970. years inside.” The two-storey house, located on Chicago near North, is a simple rectangle set back from the street, discreetly hidden behind the brick wall.

1984: Benthem House, Almere, Netherlands, Benthem Crouvel Architects

The glass box sitting on the space frame, this house is designed for the competition of “unusual homes” in which architects are invested to design without taking immediate regulations on construction. Architects asked the use of glass as a load-bearing load; Glass leaves under the floor support on the roof of corrugated steel.

1946-51: The Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

House that “It is less“Built, The House Farnsvorth He was a clean term function (or may have been a clean expression of form). It seems to be in your garden in Box that supports thin steel columns. Astute observers will notice the curtain presence, has never been drawn when the architecturally photomy are around.

1949: The Glass House, Novi Canaan, Connecticut, Philip Johnson

Visually easier, but structurally more measured than version Mies, JohnsonThe house rests on Terra firms and holds firmly at the place of steel columen corners. House It only has a kitchen token and almost doesn’t mind to hide, but the surrounding landscape offers privacy and prepared a meal magically appear. Inside the opaque cylinder bricks is a shower.

2000: Naualus Project, Santiago, Chile, Arturo Torres and Jorge Cristi

In what was supposed to be a two-month experiment, a young actress Daniela Tobar lived her life in public in a glass house walls for 225 square meters. Located in the center of Santiago, not far from the presidential palace, the glass house drew crowds, especially when the toilet used toilet or shower. After the Tobar looked sexually attacked by all hostile piles of men’s spectators, Tobar moved, and architects were forced to hide death threats.

2001 (Unfluat): Arverne Houses, Far Rockawai, Queens, New York, Michael Bell

The most famous in that it is still ungrabil of $ 113,000, which was designed by the Houston’s internal city, and New York Michael’s Development to appear an innovative approach to a mixed housing of mixed income housing for the accommodation site in Rokavai. Its dramatic concept scheme includes a sophisticated pedestrian road system that connects units of different sizes, all dressed in a clear glass on the northern and south side and transparent glass on the east and west side.