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Courthouse, Undergrad Project IIT, Elevations

A work made of graphite on illustration board.

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  • A work made of graphite on illustration board.

Date:

1947–1948

Artist:

Carter Hugh Manny Jr.
American, 1918–2017

About this artwork

Carter Manny studied architecture with three of the most prominent architects and institutions in the history of American modern architecture: at Harvard with Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and a young Philip Johnson; at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; and at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin school and studio. At IIT Manny’s senior project was the design of a court house, one of Mies’s standard exercises for students, which stemmed from his earlier designs for domestic architecture in Europe. The modern court house allowed students to create functional plans on a modest scale, as well as explore modern relationships between exterior and interior space. In this drawing of court house wall elevations, however, he displays a remarkable attention to surface and materials, including a diamond brick pattern on exterior walls and a floating screen in richly veined marble. This dynamic use of color and material recalls the mahogany and onyx used in Mies’s 1920s designs for the Barcelona Pavilion and Tugendhat House.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Architecture and Design

Artist

Carter Hugh Manny, Jr. (Architect)

Title

Courthouse, Undergrad Project IIT, Elevations

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1947–1948

Medium

Graphite on illustration board

Dimensions

75.9 × 101.4 cm (29 7/8 × 39 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Carter H. Manny Jr.

Reference Number

1990.99.3

Extended information about this artwork

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