People:

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
• George Danforth (architect)
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (creator)
• Pius E. Pahl (photographer)

Title:

Architectural projects by Mies' students

Date:

1938-1943

Level of archival description:
series

Extent and medium:

• 570 drawings (including some reprographic copies)
  3 photographs

Scope and content:
The series documents the work of the students of Mies van der Rohe's architectural design class at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.The material in this series was produced between 1939 and 1940.
The series contains drawings related or produced by Mies' students during the class he taught. The drawings are predominantly by George Danforth during the first and second year Mies taught this class and also include copies of Mies' sketches for some of his past projects, as well as photographs of the graduate students of 1940 at the Armour Institure of Technology, including George Danforth.
The series also includes photographs by Pius E. Pahl of Mies van der Rohe during a seminar at the Bauhaus in Germany, in 1931.

Reference number:

CI007.S3

Contains:

• DR1990:0026:001-209, First-year architectural design studies made at the Armour Institute of Technology, 1938-1939
• DR1990:0027:001-141, Second-year architectural design studies made at the Armour Institute of Technology, 1939-1940
• DR1997:0065:001-093, Portfolio of drawings and reprographic copies related to student projects in the Dept. of Arch., IIT; tracings by Danforth after drawings by students of Mies and Reich in Germany; copies by Danforth of sketches and drawings for projects by Mies and Reich, 1938-1943
• DR1997:0066:001-127, Portfolio of drawings for student projects and Danforth's thesis, Dept. of Arch., IIT; tracings and record drawings by Danforth of Mies's sketches for projects in Germany and the US, and tracings of Dearstyne's and other students' sketches by Danforth, 1938-1943
• DR2002:0013:004, Graduate students (front to back): George Danforth (with camera), Paul Campagna, G. Scott, and C. Worley (?) in the Armour Institute's drafting rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, ca. 1940
• DR2002:0013:005, From left to right, J. Michaelson, George Danforth and Ludwig Hilberseimer in Armour Institute's drafting rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, ca. 1940
• PH1985:0323, Mies van der Rohe conducting a seminar at the Bauhaus with students Heinrich Neuy and Herman Klumpp, Dessau, Germany, 1931
• PH1985:0324, Mies van der Rohe conducting a seminar at the Bauhaus with Herman Klumpp and two other students, Dessau, Germany, 1931
• PH1985:0325, Mies van der Rohe conducting a seminar at the Bauhaus with students Annemarie Wilke, Heinrich Neuy and Herman Klumpp, Dessau, Germany, 1931