Architectural drawings (visual works)

Description of the Collection Collection includes "File # 204" (probably refers to account number), which consists of financial documents relating to landscaping of "A.P.D. Building" (Architecture, Planning and Design, i.e., S. R. Crown Hall). Bulks with purchase requisitions and work orders. Also some bid and work correspondence, including memo signed by Alfred Caldwell.Other materials (probably not originally part of File #204) are photos of campus plans. Included are reproductions of drawings of Alfred S....

Description of the Collection Bulks with 1960s specimen and cancelled bonds, some showing payment schedules, for dormitories and student union constructions. Also gymnasium document showing bid comparison figures. Real estate acreage schedule. Unidentified drawing (of parking lot?). State St. campus site plan (1949) showing buildings "pending demolition"; and one later date plan. Materials unrelated to State Street campus include cancelled note and trust deed on 7 parcels of land at 3130 - 3256 S. Michigan. Photostat...

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16 sets of architectural drawings, blueprints, and plat maps.

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76 photographs of architectural models, sketches, plans, drawings, etc. of the South State Street campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. An oversize folder holds 4 large images.

Description of the Collection Bulks with copies of memos, correspondence and reports concerning IIT's decision to a joint library venture and eventual dissolution of agreement with The John Crerar Library. Minor amounts of statistical and financial information is included, as is one annual report for Crerar (1975/76). Name appearing most frequently is Sidney A. Guralnick, IIT Provost and V. P. Folder listing: Merger Proposals, 1957-1959/Folder 1: Includes correspondence to John T. Rettaliata. Merger Proposals,...

Description of the Collection Publication titled IIT in the Landscape: 1999 Illinois Institute of Technology West Campus Landscape Master Plan. After Mies and Caldwell: A Report to the Mies Campus Committee. The Plan concerns IIT's main campus at 33rd and S. State Streets. "West campus" refers to the academic area on the west side of State St., as opposed to the residential area on the east side of the street. Fifty-one page document with drawings, photos, text, and tables. Contents as follows: Introduction; Large-Scale...

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Looseleaf binder identified only as McCormick Tribune Campus Center (with image of model on cover). Per donor, the piece was produced for a Trustees' Facility Committee meeting, ca. Oct. 2000 - Aug. 2001. Shows the building's "allocated budget" vs. "current construction estimate." Six section detail the cost overages and suggest possible design changes for cost reduction. Includes numerous floor plan drawings and color photos of the building model.

Description of the Collection This collection consists of oversize presentation boards with images (concept designs, architects' drawings, blueprints) of various physical and architectural development projects on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology and surrounding Bronzeville area redevelopment executed as part of the university's long-range plans begun ca. 1998. Projects documented include the following: Mies Campus (reproductions of historic images), 1941 and later; "Reurbanization", 1998; Main Campus Master...

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Blueprints of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Wheaton site, the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus (aka IIT West).

Project contributors include: Charles H. Shaw Company (Developer), Perkins & Will Architects (Interior Design), Chris P. Stefanos & Associates (Structural Engineers), Environmental Systems Design (Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Plumbing Engineers), Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz & Associates Inc. (Architects and Planners).

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Materials documenting the final phase of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation International Design Competition. Includes images of models and drawings, photos of finalists, and other materials.