Glass House and its contribution to modern architecture“Form follows function. » All the great modern architects have thought, designed and instilled these same words. Or at least their design principles have evolved. Modern architects Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pierre Chareau, and Rudolf Schindler, to name a few, believed that function determined space, that space be solely for a use particular or that it overlaps to allow multiple uses. Form not only followed function, function defined space. By focusing on the relationship between architecture and interior elements, Chareau's Maison de Verre expanded the idea of ​​functionalism to include not only architecture but also the space it creates and the way people operate in this space. Architectural elements are above all. These encompass the structural elements that Chareau uses to emphasize the current state of the site, the regularity of the grid used, the characteristics of the materials, the spatial alignment of the program, etc. The Glass House would not have been designed the same way if it had been built elsewhere. The same design principles would have been apparent, but there were extenuating circumstances that the client and architect encountered on site. The clients, Dr. and Mrs. Dalsace, inherited the building and surrounding properties from his father and had the sole objective of demolishing the existing building and resurrecting a new, modern structure that would showcase Chareau's furniture designs. (Vellay 63). The only thing stopping them was an elderly woman who lived on the second floor of the existing building and refused to leave her apartment (Frampto... middle of paper...... hey, they entered the house, and then retains it as you pass through disappearing walls, pivoting doors, retractable staircases and floating floors. It integrates architecture, interior architecture and furniture design to create a total design that can be modified for different. occupants., Kenneth. “Maison de Verre.” Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal n.12 (1969) p.77-126. Print. 1928-1932. (Tokyo: ADA Edita). Printed. “Maison de Verre, Paris 7e arrondissement Web.” Segura, Alfonso Diaz “La Maison de Verre: La Sensuality de lo Velado”. , Marc Pierre Chareau: Architect and craftsman (New York: Rizzoli 1985)..