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Parable of the Glass house imagines an alternative history in which global events force Philip Johnson to rethink how he lives in his decadent modernist masterpiece. It is ultimately an exercise that explores the role of visual narrative and imagined futures in the design process.
Author
Christopher Tohru Guignon Chris
graduated
with
his
Master of Architecture from MIT in February 2010.
“Parable of the Glass House” is the result of an independent study completed in Spring 2009, under the supervision of Dept. Head Yung Ho Chang.
Advisor
Yung Ho Chang Many thanks to Yung Ho Chang, Ana Miljački, Stephen Form, Little t and MIT Department of Architecture.
Funded (in part) by a Director’s Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.