Almost Nothing

Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth

Nora Wendl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08876-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	13 color photographs; 9 black P& white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-252-08876-X / 025208876X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08876-6 / 9780252088766
Zustand	Neuware