http://www.architakes.com/?p=2097 on architecture in New York and beyond Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://www.architakes.com/?p=2097&cpage=1#comment-1017 Roger Cumming Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:42:06 +0000 http://www.architakes.com/?p=2097#comment-1017 The two houses really are very different, Farnsworth more gracefully occupying its site with its symmetrical cantilevers, without columns at its corners, its columns just kissing its roof and floor planes and its glass seeming to slide by its columns. Its entrance sequence of terrace / stair / porch / door is so much more gracious, notwithstanding the interposition of the stair, than Johnson's doorstep / door arrangement. One realizes the many differences are not so much due to Johnson's failings as to Mies's genius. The two houses really are very different, Farnsworth more gracefully occupying its site with its symmetrical cantilevers, without columns at its corners, its columns just kissing its roof and floor planes and its glass seeming to slide by its columns.  Its entrance sequence of terrace / stair / porch / door is so much more gracious, notwithstanding the interposition of the stair, than Johnson’s doorstep / door arrangement.  One realizes the many differences are not so much due to Johnson’s failings as to Mies’s genius.

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