Second-year architectural design studies made at the Armour Institute of Technology

People:

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

Title:

Second-year architectural design studies made at the Armour Institute of Technology

Date:

1939-1940

Description:

- Group of student drawings by George Danforth for the second-year architectural design class taught by Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in 1939-1940. Mostly studies of or for structural details of steel-frame construction such as window embrasures and joints in metal beams. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
141 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design drawings
conceptual drawings
student drawings
structural drawings

Technique and media:

Mostly graphite, with some pen and black ink and some red pencil

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 21,7 x 28,1 cm sheet (largest): 21,7 x 33 cm

Reference number:

DR1990:0027:001-141

Drawing Type:

line drawings
sketches

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawings
sketch elevations (drawings)
sketch plans (drawings)
sketch sections (orthographic drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The drawings are stored with the brown duo-tang folder which originally housed the sheets. There are two holes on the left-hand side of each sheet where they were inserted into the duo-tang.

Inscription:

inscribed - on many of the sheets, by Mies van der Rohe, in graphite: "crit." and "MVDR", sometimes with date inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink and graphite, throughout: with building parts and materials, calculations, measurements and other annotations inscribed - on DR1990:0027:001, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.r.: "ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / STUDIES - 2nd YEAR / PROF. L. MIES VAN DER ROHE / 1939-40 / George Danforth" inscribed - on DR1990:0027:141, by the draughtsman, in graphite: with a list under the heading of "DETAILS COMPLETED"

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

houses
windows
walls
columns (architectural elements)
joints (connections)
Modern Movement
beams (structural elements)

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

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