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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	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1952
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	3°C · 13.6h daylight · 8 km/h wind	29°C · 12.7h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Museum	2 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	museum house	tower housing
Materials	glass	stone
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.