Six Patron Tours to the Philip Johnson Glass House, which consist of a private tour for six persons led by the site's Executive Director, followed by a wine and cheese reception. The offer also includes one copy of "The Harvard Five at New Canaan," signed by the author, Willliam D. Earls, AIA.
Philip Johnson's Glass House was a remarkable achievement when it was completed in 1949. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (IL), its exterior walls are of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. It began a fifty-year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas through the addition of many new "pavilions"—Guest House, Lake Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Studio, and Visitors Pavilion — and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding forty-acre landscape. The Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site, opened to the public last month.