Conceptual sketches for Museum for a Small City

People:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (draughtsman)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)

Title:

Conceptual sketches for Museum for a Small City

Date:

1941-1943

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
31 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

conceptual drawings
design development drawings
structural drawings

Technique and media:

Mostly graphite, with some drawings in pen and black ink

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 15,1 x 17,7 cm sheet (largest): 15,1 x 21 cm

Reference number:

DR1990:0030:001-031

Drawing Type:

sketches

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawings
sketch elevations (drawings)
sketch plans (drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The sheets are mainly two sizes: 15.1 x 17.7 cm and 15.1 x 21.0 cm. The perforations and small losses at edge of sheets indicate that they were torn from an Apex pad. Some sheets have paper hinges for mounting along one edge. Marks left by paper clips on some sheets.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, throughout: with letters and numbers

Subject:

architecture

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

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