Photographies: Ezra Stoller The Robert C. Leonhardt House in Lloyd Harbor, Long Island, New York, was built in 1956 by American modernist architect Philip Johnson. The house projects over a fjord, with a hundred-foot drop to the water below. The water can be seen in its immensity and trees can be seen through the glass walls. The project became very famous due to its resemblance to an earlier Mies van der Rohe’

Photography: Simon García (actuality) | others The Glass House is best understood as a pavilion for viewing the surrounding landscape. Invisible from the road, the house sits on a promontory overlooking a pond with views towards the woods beyond. The house is 55 feet long and 33 feet wide, with 1,815 square feet. Each of the four exterior walls is punctuated by a centrally located glass door that opens onto the lands