Other Fathers: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe : S.R. Crown Hall by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
S.R. Crown Hall, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , (Chicago, Illinois); 1950 - 1956; Other Fathers: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (or Mies, as he was known) already had a distinguished career before emigrating to the United States in 1937. When he accepted an appointment to head IIT’s College of Architecture (at the time the Armour Institute of Technology) he also agreed to design a master plan for the school’s campus. Mies sought to create a style that reflected the mechanical spirit of the age, and this drive permeated both the curriculum and the buildings he created at IIT. The Building The two-level building is configured as a pure rectangular form, 220 ft. by 120 ft. by 18 ft. tall. The enclosed space is column free with four six ft. steel plate girders welded to eight H-columns. These girders suspend the roof in a single plane to form a primary structure. While the low...