One of Modernism's Most Radical Acts of Openness and the House that Changed Everything

(Project_Details)

Project

The Glass House

Designers

Philip Johnson

Client

The Local Project

Production by

The Local Project

Colour Palette

For this project, our focus was on the tension between enclosure and openness that defines one of the most significant buildings in American architecture. Designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1949, the Glass House sits within a 47-acre estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, its steel and glass pavilion dissolving the boundary between interior and landscape entirely. The RED Raptor and RED Komodo paired with Sigma Cine Zooms let us trace that boundary closely, moving through the brick cylinder and Barcelona chairs to the trees pressing against the glass on every side. Aerials on the DJI Mavic Series revealed the house as Johnson intended it to be seen, a precise steel frame held lightly within the Connecticut woodland.