The architect has called his building “a hillbilly Farnsworth House.” He thinks of his work as a response to the famous glass and steel wilderness retreat that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe fashioned (1945-1951) for Edith Farnsworth, a Chicago doctor, . Like that formal masterpiece, the French River bunky is geometrically simple and completely modern. Read more of John Bentley Mays article [here](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/architecture/a-modern-cottage-like-a-wedge-in-the-wilderness/article19871762/).