While many around the world might immediately think of Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House in Connecticut, the Czech Skleněný dům —formally the (or sometimes referred to in historical contexts as the Bayerova vila )—holds its own unique, and tragically brief, place in the canon of modernist architecture.
Skleněný dům is the Czech Republic’s glass palace of optimism. It is a must-see for any devotee of European modernism—if you can get past the garden gate. skleneny dum