Launched in 1991, award-winning Architecture in Detail books focus on individual seminal buildings, celebrating their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a text by a respected author, a sequence of colour and black-and-white photographs, and a set of technical drawings and working details. The Farnsworth House is a seminal Modernist glass-and-steel house by Mies van der Rohe, one of the greatest twentieth-century architects.

Author Biography

Maritz Vandenberg was the founding Publisher of Architecture and Technology Press and has worked as Technical Editor on the Architects' Journal and as Editorial Director of Architectural Press Books. Among other publications he is a co-author of the Phaidon title Twentieth-Century Museums I: New National Gallery, and has written three design primers for architectural students and practitioners - Soft Canopies, Glass Canopies and Cable Nets. Author's Residence: London.