Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur. Chihuly graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Washington. He enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the University of Washington at Seattle, where in 1965 he received a bachelor of arts degree in interior design.[1] In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[1] where he studied under Harvey Littleton. In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design.[1] In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington.[2] In 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield.[1][3] His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye. After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident.[3] No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying "Once I stepped back, I liked the view" and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.[1] Chihuly describes his role as "more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor." ~ Info from Wikipedia....

The house, built 1949-1952 by the architect, Jacques Brownson forthis family, is framed with standard structural steel members. The 32 by 88 foot roof plate is suspended from four welded steel frames spanning 34 feet. All exterior and interior walls are non load bearing. Brownson was a student of Mies van der Rohe and received his Bachelor of Science in 1948 and his Master of Science in architecture in 1954 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Clearly the Geneva House is close in design to the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois as well as Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The house, its design, construction, and HVAC systems were all discussed in Mr. Brownson’s paper submitted for partial fulfillment of his Master degree in 1954. Who builds a house nowadays as part of their PARTIAL fulfillment for a master’s degree in architecture? Located at 949 Batavia Avenue, Geneva, Illinois