The Glass House

Photographs commissioned by Metropolis Magazine of Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The commission was in celebration of the residence and grounds passing into the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

In assigning Eirik Johnson to photograph the landscape, we asked that he use the walls of the house to construct his views. The results show that he had the same experience. “I thought the house would feel more like an empty space,” Eirik Johnson says, “but to the contrary, the tree branches seem to come inside.”