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006/06. People

 Record Group Term
Identifier: 006/06

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Mies van der Rohe memorandum, 1945

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.03
Description of the Collection Memo dated Sept. 18, 1945 to "Professor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe" from S. I. Hayakawa. Concerns a request from COOP magazine for architectural photos to be used in an upcoming article. Typed, unsigned memo is the copy sent to Frank Wheeler in Illinois Institute of Technology's News Bureau with a hand written note by Hayakawa (signed "Don") to Wheeler appended. Both S. I. Hayakawa and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were faculty members of Illinois Institute of Technology when the memo was...
Dates: 1945

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

R. Ogden Hannaford records, 1939-1987

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.35
Content Description

Records of R. Ogden Hannaford, an architecture graduate (B.S.) from IIT in 1947 and later Professor of Architecture at IIT from 1960 until his retirement in 1986. 1939-1987.

Dates: 1939-1987

Alfred S. Alschuler campus plan, 1940

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.36
Content Description

A framed print (22" x 31") of the famed 1940 campus plan by Alfred S. Alschuler.

Dates: 1940

Mies is More - Learning from Mies video, 2005

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.15
Description of the Collection

Video tape of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe lecture "Mies is More - Learning from Mies" delivered by 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Robert Venturi, Nov. 9, 2005 in S. R. Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Crown Hall.

Dates: 2005

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

Mies van der Rohe prints, 1980-1989

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.04
Description of the Collection

Reproductions of two drawings 10¼ x 13¾" by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe of Court House Projects, ca. 1934. Originals are ink on tracing paper, 8½ x 11¾" in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Dates: 1980-1989

Miscellaneous slides, 1955-1995

 Collection
Identifier: 006.06.33
Description of the Collection

Photographic slides of Lafayette Park by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1955 – 1963, an unknown female architecture professor and class by David Joel, 1995, an unidentifed male with laptop computer, and students on campus at 33rd and State St.

Dates: 1955-1995

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

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

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