On 9/29/2011 6:46 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

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Went to Glass House this weekend, and Philip Johnson built a little pipe frame in the outline of a house, covered with chain link.  Then he grew vines until they covered it.

sharpshooter,

as I recall Mr. Johnson was a landscape architect As I recall, he was a real architect, and part of the reason for his involvement in the Seagram building was that he had a NY license and Mies didn't. Mies couldn't provide the NYS board with a copy of his high school diploma.

so, did they tell you about the wild turkey that flew through one of the glass walls and scratched up the counter top?  Wasn't any ivy on the glass walls, was there?  Or gerania.

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