Skip to main content
Contact Us

006/06. People

 Record Group Term
Identifier: 006/06

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

A Study of Long-Span Steel Roof Structures

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.17
Description of the Collection

Research report, A Study of Long-Span Steel Roof Structures, by David C. Sharpe. Autographed on inside front cover by author, July 2003.

Dates: 1968
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Frederick K. Richter and Mies van der Rohe audio recording

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.29
Description of the Collection

One 7" reel-to-reel audio tape identified on box as "Richter, Mies, et al". Probably refers to Professor Frederick (Fritz) K. Richter, a long-time faculty member of the Illinois Institute of Technology Humanities Department, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Dates: 1940-1970
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Gene Summers correspondence, 1990-1992

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.19
Description of the Collection Primarily correspondence and memos to and from Gene Summers, Dean of Architecture, concerning lecture series given by Josef Paul Kleihues ca. October to November 1992. The correspondence also concerns Summers' service on the Museum Contemporary of Art's architect selection committee (Kleihues was chosen as the architect) and resulting monetary donations made to the College of Architecture. Other names appearing in the collection include Jason Kerwin, Ben Nicholson, chair of the Illinois...
Dates: 1990-1992
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Gene Summers papers, 1990-2001

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.34
Description of the Collection Papers from Gene R. Summers, Dean of College of Architecture. The materials are mostly photocopies. The collection includes correspondence to Lew Collens, president of IIT, regarding a living architecture museum at IIT. Also included, are excerpts from "A History of Armour Institute" by James Clinton Peebles (1890) regarding the architecture curriculum, and writings on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the architecture department. The collection includes a handwritten draft of this...
Dates: 1990-2001
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

George W. Larson photographs, 1940-1941

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.21
Description of the Collection Two black and white photos of faculty and student members of the Illinois Institute of Technology architecture program circa 1940-1941, taken by George W. Larson, a 1942 graduate. One photo shows a group walking on a downtown Chicago street, the other photograph shows a group sitting on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago, where IIT architecture courses were taught at that time. Those identified in the photos include the following: Charles Woehrl, Elizabeth Wright (Ingraham), Ernest...
Dates: 1940-1941
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Howard Dearstyne papers, 1937-1971

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.22
Description of the Collection

Files created by Howard Dearstyne concerning his professional activities and fellow architects. The collection bulks with correspondence. Journal articles and tear sheets, particularly by or about Barry Byrne are also included, as is a photograph by John Gass of a house designed by Byrne. Of particular note is Dearstyne's correspondence with (Jace) Jacques Brownson, Barry Byrne (1937-1963) and others. Sally A. Chappell's name appears frequently in Byrne materials.

Dates: 1937-1971
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Ludwig Hilberseimer's Settlement Unity: Origins and Applications

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.18
Description of the Collection

This collection consists of a 20 page typed manuscript by David Spaeth, "Ludwig Hilberseimer's Settlement Unity: Origins and Applications." Spaeth is identified in the manuscript as "Visiting Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Florida." (2 copies)

Dates: 1980-1989
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Mies and Beyond: IIT Alumni Tour

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.26
Description of the Collection Video titled Mies and Beyond: IIT Alumni Tour featuring highlights of a tour by Illinois Institute of Technology architecture students, alumni, and faculty to Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Berlin in 2002. The tour was initiated by Robert Babbin '42 and led by Prof. Dirk Dennison. The group toured each location with particular attention to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and other modernist architectural sites. Scenes at the reconstructed Barcelona Pavilion (including Georg Kolbe's sculpture ...
Dates: 2002
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Mies van der Rohe collection, 1938-1980

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.24
Abstract Printed program and biography for dinner welcoming Mies to Chicago on accepting the position of Director of the department of architecture at Armour Institute of Technology; Oct. 18, 1938. Letter (and bibliography) from Paige Temple to George R. Bushnell on letterhead from "The Office of Mies van der Rohe"; Dec. 13, 1972. Invitation and donation card to the Mies van der Rohe Lecture Series, sponsored by Illinois Institute of Technology; March 1973. Published brochure and two-page "Building...
Dates: 1938-1980
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Mies van der Rohe photographs, 1973

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.05
Description of the Collection Two photographic transparencies (b&w positive images, 11x14") apparently photographed from a printed document showing Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architecture program, in chart format, proposed for Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago. One image is titled "The Elements of Architectural Form" and identifies the chart (on the other image which is titled "Program for Architectural Education") as being a 1973 recreation, by Frank F. Ake, Jr. of the 1937 original chart (which was lost). Ake...
Dates: 1973
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Paul V. Galvin Library

35 West 33rd Street | Chicago, IL | 60616
312.567.6847 library@iit.edu