Resor House, 1938, Mies Van der Rohe

Resor House, 1938.
by Mies Van der Rohe
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA.

_

Bringing Mies van der Rohe to America for the first time, this summer house commissioned by MoMa trustee Helen Resor was planned to be built over a streamflow from the Snake River, surrounded by the Grand Teton Mountains.

This project brings some of the most typical elements of Mies' vocabulary, such as cruciform steel columns, floor-to-ceiling glazing that frames the mountain landscapes on both sides of the main room and movable partitions and furniture.

Despite the similarities shared with previous works such as the Tugendhat House and the Barcelona Pavilion, Mies adds a strong American tone to this project, mainly expressed in the choices of materials: a native fieldstone for the fireplace and ground level walls and reddish black cypress boards for the interior walls, ceilings and exterior cladding - the first and only of his projects to use wood as a cladding material.

The images presented here were based on the initial version of the project that was later redesigned in a single-storey version. None of them were ever built.