Yesterday I got the opportunity to tour an old mansion home owned by the United Order of Tents. I took these photographs while I was there. One of the trends of modern architecture is to provide as much window area as possible. To remove the barrier between nature and our controlled indoor environments. This is most famously exemplified by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and later, Phillip Johnson’s Glass House. Both are seminal achievements of modern architecture. As I spend more time in old structures like the building photographed here, I realize that there is value in not being so profligate with light. The worlds conjured up by the shadows in these photographs seems magical.
