 The weekend house became a lightning rod for anti-modernist publications, exemplified in the April 1953 issue of "House Beautiful", which attacked it as a "communist-inspired effort" to supplant traditional American styles.Large areas of glass wall, flat roofs, purging of ornament, and a perceived lack of traditional warmth and coziness were characteristics of the International Style that were particular talking points of attack.The poor energy efficiency of the Farnsworth House has been widely discussed as well.