About this artwork
Walter Netsch, former principal at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, is well known for his work with field theory, a method of design based on fields of rotated grids. In the 1960s Netsch applied this technique to a number of projects, including the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. His contribution to Late Entries playfully extrudes the grid into a tower, a pattern that he described as a butterfly in a field of flowers.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Walter Andrew Netsch (Architect)
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Title
- Tribune Tower Two, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Plan
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Place
- Chicago (Building address)
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Date
- 1981
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Medium
- Ink, computer graphic, and watercolor wash on paper
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Dimensions
- 74 × 58.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter A Netsch
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Reference Number
- 1989.455.5
Extended information about this artwork
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