Tag: Farnsworth House

My favourite modernist building … the Farnsworth House

Sep 3, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

The Farnsworth House in Southern Illinois by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is for me a clear, quiet statement of Modernist architecture.
Edible Architecture

May 21, 2010

# Comment

While Laugier’s Primitive Hut is frequently looked at as the dominant myth of architect’s beginnings, millions of children around the world are told of more appealing origins for building.
1946 was an eventful year

Apr 28, 2009

# AC History, HISTORY, RANTING

Of course everyone knows that the Arch Centre was born – no doubt on a dark and windy Wellington evening – on Tuesday the 23rd of July 1946 in the Baronia Lounge.