Shelter is one of the basic human needs.
The best homes turn that need into art, whether it's an opulent French palace or a minimalist Midwestern country home.
Here are a selection of the most beautiful homes ever built by some of the most masterful architects who have ever worked.
Mies van der Rohe is the master of modernist minimalism — and the Farnsworth House outside of Chicago is his opus.
The 1951 structure is as much a Zen temple as a modernist masterpiece.
Notice how the wide, minimal layout forms perfect perpendicular angles with the surrounding trees.
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