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Farnsworth House

    Architect:

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

    Location:

    located approximately 75 km southeast of Chicago, in a 24-hectare area bordering the Fox River, south of Plano, Illinois

    The glass and steel house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a leading kidney specialist in Chicago. It had to be a place where she could enjoy nature and indulge her passions

    Objectives:

    Exercise of introducing research in project theory
    search of information in specialized sources, collection and selection of information
    production of research texts and development of the capacity to work as a team
    ability to interpret projects / works of architecture
    ability to reflect and write and oral synthesis

    Methodology:

    Organization of working groups (max. 2 members of the same class).
    Election of an author to investigate.
    General search of the constructed work of this author.
    Election of a paradigmatic work of this author.
    Specific study of the work and the author (biographical data, the theoretical approach to works that precede the chosen work.
    Research on the project / work.

    Model by:

    Verónico and Anaisa