Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel and Parish House, Chicago, Illinois, Exterior Perspective

Architecture and Design

1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany, 1886–1969

German émigré architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began designing a new campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) soon after his appointment as chair of the school’s department of architecture in 1938. With this expansion Mies sought to remake the college for the postwar world by offering high-tech research and educational opportunities. The creation of IIT’s new campus relied upon modern planning techniques such as urban renewal—the practice of razing and rebuilding large residential areas designated as “blighted”—resulting in displacement and cultural erasure in the largely African American neighborhood where the school was located.

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Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Architect)
Title: Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel and Parish House, Chicago, Illinois, Exterior Perspective
Place: Chicago (Building address:)
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.: 1949
Medium: Graphite and charcoal on Strathmore board
Dimensions: 75.7 × 100.2 cm (29 13/16 × 39 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of A. James Speyer
Reference Number: 1988.31.4
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Past Forward: Architecture and Design Collection at the Art Institute,” September 12, 2017 – January 21, 2018.
SOD1261 Museum Folkwang,Essen, Germany “Bauhaus:Dessau-Chicago-New York,” August 11-November 12, 2000.
The Art Institute of Chicago and travel exhibit, “The Unknown Mies van er Rohe and His Disciples of Modernism,” 1986-87, cat. no. 104.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago Architecture and Desing: 1923-1993,” 1993, cat. no. 131.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure,” 1993.
Proposed loan, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, “Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York,” 2000.

Mies Reconsidered 104.

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