Prototype Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
c. 1940/41
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe American, born Germany, 1886-1969
Chicago
Mies designed the IIT campus on a 24 × 24 –foot grid, which allowed him to create a variety of buildings whose dimensions related to one another and to the overall plan. In certain areas, the paving stones and planters
seem to gesture to the gridded system underpinning the otherwise open landscape between buildings.
Graphite and crayon on Strathmore board