Museum for a Small City (1943)

People:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (creator)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
George Danforth (architect)

Title:

Museum for a Small City (1943)

Date:

1943

Level of archival description:
project

Extent and medium:

162 drawings
57 textual records
2 portfolios

Scope and content:
This project series documents Mies van der Rohe concept design of the unexectuted project Museum for a Small City for the publication Architecture Forum in 1943 and documents related to a graduate thesis for a small museum by George Danforth, student of Mies van der Rohe. The material in this series was produced between 1941 and 1943. The series contains sketches by Mies van der Rohe, research notes and text for a graduate thesis for a small museum and two porfolio of drawings of Illinois Institute of Technology students' projects, including Museum of a Small City.

Reference number:

CI007.S1.1943.PR01

Related units of description:

Documents related to the Museum for a Small City can also be found in the Peter Carter fonds (AP047). See also documents copies of sketches on Mies van der Rohe for the pavilion by his student George Danforth in CI007.S3.

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