Crucially, Johnson did not copy Mies. Where Mies was serious, rigid, and structural, Johnson was theatrical, witty, and contextual. The Glass House (1949) took the minimalism of the Bauhaus but set it against the rugged, untamed nature of New England.
: Johnson famously remarked that the surrounding trees and hills were his "expensive wallpaper". Every door in the house opens directly onto the landscape, blurring the boundary between the internal domestic space and the wilder external world. The Duality of Seen and Unseen The Glass House