Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth - Couverture souple

Wendl, Nora

 
9780252088766: Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 025208876X ISBN 13 : 9780252088766
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2025

Synopsis

The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth’s role as Mies’s collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect’s angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl’s audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth surrounding the Edith Farnsworth House and its two central figures. An eminent physician and woman of letters, Farnsworth left a rich trove of correspondence, memoirs, and photographs that Wendl uses to reconstruct her voice. Farnsworth’s memories and experiences alternate with Wendl’s thoughts on topics like misogyny and professional ambition to fashion a lyrical examination of love, loneliness, beauty, and the search for the divine. Eloquent and confessional, Almost Nothing restores Edith Farnsworth to her place in architectural history and the masterpiece that bears her name.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nora Wendl is an essayist, artist, architect, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
025208876X
ISBN 13 
9780252088766
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
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