Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Library and Administration Building Proposal
c. 1944
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe American, born Germany, 1886-1969
Illinois Institute of Technology
The unbuilt Library and Administration Building is often considered one of Mies’s most significant designs for IIT. In addition to proposed technical innovations in steel construction, the building features a complex program for library stacks and open offices. Mies intended this design to emphasize individual functions and the whole building as parallel yet unified experiences of space.
Charcoal, graphite, and yellow pencil on tracing paper