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Author_Nora Wendl
Broken Glass
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Chicago
Edith Farnsworth House
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feminist architectural history
Fox River
glass house
Historic register
Illinois
Illinois Institute of Technology
International Style
Kendall County
Landmark
Mies van der Rohe
modern architecture
Plano
universal space
Product details
- ISBN 9780252088766
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover.
Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine.
Eloquent and confessional, Almost Nothing restores Edith Farnsworth to her place in architectural history and the masterpiece that bears her name.
Nora Wendl is an essayist, artist, architect, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico.
