Plank, Jeffrey

Description of the Collection DVD of the roundtable discussion held on June 14, 2008 in Crown Hall, regarding Crombie Taylor, Aaron Siskind, and the Adler and Sullivan Project. Speakers were Jeffrey Plank, Alvin Loginsky, and Len Gittleman. The roundtable was held in connection with the 2008 exhibit "Crombie Taylor, Aaron Siskind, and the Adler and Sullivan Project" curated by John Vinci and Jeffrey Plank, which recreated the 1954 Institute of Design exhibit by students of Aaron Siskind who, in 1952, undertook a...

Abstract Per publicity information provided by the Mies van der Rohe Society re the exhibit "Crombie Taylor, Aaron Siskind, and the Adler and Sullivan Project," curated by John Vinci and Jeffrey Plank: "This exhibit documents and illustrates the important contributions in the early 1950s of architect Crombie Taylor, photographer Aaron Siskind, and IIT's Institute of Design (ID) to our understanding of Louis Sullivan, an architect of central importance to the history of American architecture and to...