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The Farnsworth House, built on a vast meadow with a variety of trees along the Fox River, is not a structure that lives up to common societal ideals of inhabitable architecture.

What is missing are the “ non-essentials ”.

As Mies quotes, “ the essentials for living are floor and roof.

Everything else is proportion and nature.

Whether the house pleases or not is inconsequential .” The house was created in order to enable its inhabitants to experience the rural silence and the passing of the seasons.

It begins unfolding and communicating itself to the outside only with the change of the seasons.

Thus, this house, and living in it, involves trust in the environment.

The man-made geometric form creates a relationship the extraneous landscape surrounding it to exemplify “ dwelling ” in its simplest state.

Open views from all sides of the building help enlarge the area and aid flow between the living space and its natural surroundings.

The views achieved from the architecture reaches through the masses of the trees to other bank of Fox River – the cell of urbanism as a meditative, almost monastic production, The ever-changing play of nature guides the inner life of the inhabitants through sensual space towards self-realization.

The basic idea was thus realized.