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College of Architecture Miscellaneous reports and memos, 1994-1999
Collection
Identifier: 006.01.04
Description of the Collection
1) E-mail to Faculty and Staff from Jack Hartray, detailing promotions of Mary Ann Green, Sheila Walker, and Bernadette Ivers. 2) Copy of "Review of the Graduate Programs in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology," April 20, 1999. Also present are the following three-ring binders: Three-ring binders: 1) Highlights, College of Architecture, 1989-1991 by Gene R. Summers, Dean. The report incorporates Summer's article Toward the Education of an Architect, originally...
Dates:
1994-1999
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
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
Mies van der Rohe Society collection, 1951-2011
Collection
Identifier: 032.04.04
Description of the Collection
This collection contains the research material, folders of materials on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collected on behalf of the Mies Society.
Dates:
1951-2011
Tutorial Unit collection, 1990
Collection
Identifier: 006.01.03
Description of the Collection
Materials detailing the "Tutorial Unit" as a system for architectural education at Illinois Institute of Technology; proposed in 1990 by Gene R. Summers, Dean of the College of Architecture. Arthur S. Takeuchi, Meton Ramos Gadelha, and Benjamin Erskine Nicholson are identified in connection with units 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Their resumes are included. Also included: "An Open Letter to Dean Summers," being a multi-page letter from student David S. Bombardier commenting on the proposal.
Dates:
1990
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