The Philip Johnson Glass House

The Philip Johnson Glass House, a National Trust Historic Site, offers its 47-acre campus as a catalyst for the preservation and interpretation of modern architecture, landscape, and art; and as a canvas for inspiration and experimentation honoring the legacy of Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and David Whitney (1939-2005). The Philip Johnson Glass House was completed in 1949. Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (Plano, IL, 1951), its exterior walls are of glass with no interior walls, a radical departure from houses of the time. The Glass House began a fifty-year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas through the addition of many "pavilions"—the Brick House/Guest House, Pond Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Library/Study, and DaMonsta—and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding forty-acre landscape. The National Trust for Historic Preservation ( http://www.PreservationNation.org ) is a privately-funded nonprofit organization, working to save America's historic places to enrich our future. The 2013 spring season will be launched with a new exhibition by artist E.V. Day, featuring her latest work. The second iteration of the Night (1947-2015) sculpture-in-residence series will debut a new sculpture by artist Tauba Auerbach. The accompanying Night Sounds on-site musical performance series will continue with Alexis Georgopoulos of ARP performing a new piece in collaboration with Tauba Auerbach.