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1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) image

Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

New Canaan, New Canaan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Field	Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) 1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Adolf Loos 1896 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1896
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Innere Stadt, Innere Stadt, Austria
Climate	1°C · 13.6h daylight · 6 km/h wind	11°C · 13.9h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Café Museum
Focus	Museum	5 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Adolf Loos
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Café Museum Looshaus Rufer House Villa Muller
Typologies	museum house	museum housing house villa modernism
Materials	glass	stucco concrete timber
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Concrete and Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Stucco
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.