The famous house from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' 80's movie, where Cameron wrecked his dad's Ferrari! The main house is a four-bedroom steel and glass box designed in 1953 by James Speyer, a student of modernist pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. About 40 feet from it, cantilevered over the edge of a wooded ravine, is the smaller building, the one featured in the movie, an equally boxy 1974 design by Speyer's student David Haid.