The Farnsworth house is clearly NOT a ranch but it was built during the height of the ranch era -constructed (just a year before my own home) in 1952. It is an peak example of the purely architectural residential design then and a strong contrast to the standard single family homes being built at that time. Continue reading “Residential Architecture in the Age of the Ranch: Farnsworth House”
Residential Architecture in the Age of the Ranch: Farnsworth House
5 min readHere’s an interesting example of the residential ARCHITECTURE being constructed at the same time as the ranch house was filling the country. Farnswoth house has been called the “reducio ad absurdum of the notion of a dwelling.”