Tag: Pennsylvania
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unexpected encounters #12: road trip journal
The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel … always on alert. I am always restless. Even in the evening. I feel like a sentinel on guard day and night. I can rarely stretch out and relax … Edith Farnsworth, quoted on panel at Farnsworth House [Sally] Hemings’…
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Fallingwater + Polymath Park
In August 2011 we embarked on an architectural road trip that began in Washington D.C., progressed through rural Pennsylvania, and ended up in Chicago, where we took the Mies tour. For me Wright’s renowned Fallingwater was a disappointment. It didn’t match up to what I had imagined. While the house sat beautifully in the landscape,…