The Glass House - a Masterpiece by Philip Johnson (1949) (One Minute Architecture)

There are a few buildings that I really wanted to see since I was a student of architecture and this is one of them: The Glass House by Philip Johnson. It was completed in 1949 and became an immediate success, so successful that in weekends the roads leading up to it would be clogged with visitors who wanted to see a glimpse of what Modern Architecture was all about. Philip Johnson is credited with bringing modern architecture to the US as a curator of the influential Modern Architecture exhibition at the MOMA in 1932. Johnson focussed on the visual, minimalist forms of modern architecture. The surrealists, like Andre Breton in his book Nadja had dreamed of glasshouses as lucid fantasies in a haze of dream and reality. Philip Johnson’s Glass House is a privileged dream that had become reality, partly due to the large context it is set in. To me, the notion of a glass house is that it is the dialectic of an architecture that is focusing on creating a context for itself by becoming both the context as well as being distant from it.
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[@R3mProductions]

your videos are EXTREMELY interesting. please keep them coming ;)

[@OneMinuteArchitecture]

Thank you!

[@jcmndz7533]

felicitaciones excelente sintesis en cada video. saludos desde argentina

[@_nutmeg]

Interesting place

[@YehoshuaD]

There is a glass house in my memory that I'm really trying to find on UA-cam...It's not this, maybe it's just something from my dreams....

[@carlovys]

Are the measures correct???

[@rjlausartDesign]

wow nice content.. thanks I found your channel.. support here..as an Architect.

[@OneMinuteArchitecture]

Thank you. Appreciate it

[@gabrielafloresavila4437]

Donde está el cuarto de lavado? Es esencial en toda casa y en esta yo no lo vi una casa así no está completa no es funcional

[@Sunfried1]

Your dimensions for the house are quite wrong. 70 meters long? 70 feet perhaps.

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Hello! Very interesting videos! If you want we can give a shout-out to each other!
Tell me if you're interested!