The Glass House

For those of you who are interested, or for those who might be in the Connecticut area sometime in the next year, Philip Johnson’s famous Glass House– inspired by a Mies Van de Rohe design– is now open to the public for the first time in 50+ years. The 47-acre site features buildings from every decade of Johnson’s life and surveys architecture, art and landscape design from the second-half of the twentieth century. The re-opening of the site hopes to serve as a catalyst for the preservation of modern architecture as well as a canvas for cultivating new ideas honoring the spirit of Philip Johnson and David Whitney. It’s really worth checking out, even if tickets are sold out until 2008. To get more info, purchase tickets or set up patron tours visit www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org or call 203.966.8167.