Sketches for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

People:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (draughtsman)
George Danforth (student)
Illinois Institute of Technology (educational institution)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (teacher)

Title:

Sketches for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

Date:

1940-1941

Description:

- These drawings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were made in the context of a "crit" with his student George Danforth. They elucidate, critique or otherwise respond to some aspect of the thesis project.
- The group includes a plan of Mies van der Rohe's unrealized project for the German Pavilion for the Brussels World's Fair (1934), elements of which were further developed in the thesis project (DR1997:0063:001). Danforth is the author of the inscriptions on this sheet.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
33 drawing(s)

Technique and media:

Mostly graphite with some pen and blue ink

Dimensions:

sheets (range): 15,1 to 21,5 x 21,1 to 33 cm

Reference number:

DR1997:0063:001-033

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

exhibition building
student project

Credit line:
Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal; Gift of Elliott and Carolyn Mittler/Don d'Elliott et Carolyn Mittler

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