Research notes, draft text, and illustrations for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

People:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (teacher)
Walter Peterhans (teacher)
George Danforth (compiler)
George Danforth (author)
Illinois Institute of Technology (educational institution)
George Danforth (student)

Title:

Research notes, draft text, and illustrations for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology

Date:

1940-1943

Description:

- Danforth's thesis included a written component. Danforth researched the history, function and program of the museum, modern art gallery or exhibition hall, taking suggestions from Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans about which ones he should examine. The group of documents includes an incomplete draft of Danforth's written text, as well as research notes and illustrations of museums/exhibition spaces by architects including Schinkel (Altes Museum, Berlin), Le Corbusier (Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Henry van de Velde, and H.P. Berlage.

Form:
drawings
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
57 textual record(s) and reprographic copy(ies)

Technique and media:

Manuscripts are mostly graphite with some red pencil and pen and blue ink; typescripts are black ink with annotations in graphite; reprographic copies include negative and positive stats

Dimensions:

sheet (range): 12,5 to 27,7 x 7,3 to 21,5 cm

Reference number:

DR1997:0070:001-057

Document Type:

notes

Location:

Paris; France;

Subject:

architecture
installation

Subject Descriptive Terms:

museums
exhibition buildings
installations (exhibitions)
student projects
research (document genres)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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