Thomas R. Burleigh Collection
1940-2000 (bulk 1940-1942)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
As a student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Armour Institute during the first three years of Mies’s tenure, Burleigh (b. 1919) executed the comprehensive set of design exercises assigned by Mies to all students: brick pattern studies, glass wall studies, and studies for brick, wood, and half-timber houses. In addition to drawings documenting Mies’s teaching methods, the collection includes other student memorabilia such as candid photographs and yearbooks.
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Graphite drawings, watercolors, black and white photographic prints, black and white contact sheets, black and white negatives, holograph papers and a CD-ROM.