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Glass House itself is inferior to Farnsworth House in «intellectual rigor» and exquisite detailing, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff. For instance, he wrote, the steel I-beams at the corners of Johnson’s building «are clumsily detailed — especially disconcerting in a work of such purity.» Nevertheless, the building is «a legitimate aesthetic triumph», with the glass walls…
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Modern architecture began as an international style the first examples of which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a movement until the late 1970s[1] and continues to influence present-day architecture. Modernity in architecture is said to be heralded by the return of «wit, ornament and reference» to architecture in…
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