About this artwork
Mies designed the IIT campus on a 24 × 24 –foot grid, which allowed him to create a variety of buildings whose dimensions related to one another and to the overall plan. In certain areas, the paving stones and planters
seem to gesture to the gridded system underpinning the otherwise open landscape between buildings.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Architect)
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Title
- Prototype Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
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Place
- Chicago (Building address:)
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Date
- 1935–1946
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Medium
- Graphite and crayon on Strathmore board
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Dimensions
- 50.8 × 76.2 cm (20 × 30 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of A. James Speyer
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Reference Number
- 1988.31.1
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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