"In 1938, an advertising executive, Stanley Resor, had asked Mies to design a summer house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The house was never built, but its concept had been one Mies very much wanted to execute. From outdoors, the Resor house had been conceived as one perfect man-made thing in an otherwise wild setting; from inside, its glass walls were intended to rivet an inhabitant's attention on the landscape outside. An uncontrolled, natural wilderness would thereby gain in focus and beauty: architecture as lens. Mies took one look at the doctor's meadow, decided that it would do as well as Wyoming mountains, and began to turn Stanley Resor's house into Edith Farnsworth's."
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- bill 8-24-2004 3:32 am