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

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

1938-1939

- Group of student drawings by George Danforth for the first-year architectural design class taught by Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in 1938-1939. Mostly sketch plans and interior views which study the relationship between walls, windows, columns and doors in houses. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

• design drawings
• dessins conceptuels
• student drawings

Graphite and black chalk ?

sheet (smallest): 15,2 x 21,4 cm sheet (largest): 28 x 21,7 cm

DR1990:0026:001-209

• sketches

• pictorial drawings
• sketch plans (drawings)

• interior views

- The drawings are stored with a 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.

inscribed - on many drawings, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ? in graphite, b.: "crit", sometimes with date inscribed - on many drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite, throughout: with measurements, inscriptions identifying furniture and rooms, calculations, compass points and other annotations inscribed - on DR1990:0026:001, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.r.: "1st YEAR STUDIES. / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / PROF. L. MIES VAN der ROHE. / 1938-39. / George Danforth"

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• houses
• windows
• walls
• columns (architectural elements)
• Modern Movement

© George Edson Danforth