#van herck

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“Walter Benjamin ... advocates the utopian ideal of living in a house of glass in which, along with every single trace of coziness, also every trace of the inhabitant would be erased.” (Van Herck 125)

Philip Johnson, Glass House (1949)

Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House (1951)

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Karina Van Herck, “'Only Where Comfort Ends, Does Humanity Begin': On the 'Coldness' of Avant-Garde Architecture in the Weimar Period," in Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture, ed. by Hilde Heynen and Gülsüm Baydar (New York: Routledge, 2005), 124