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If You Live in a Glass House It gets quite hot in the summer. Visiting Philip Johnson's most durable architectural achievement.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at 10:04 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Philip Johnson's Glass House.Click here to read a slide-show essay about Philip Johnson's Glass House.

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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