COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Paul V. Galvin Library
Image View:
View of the main entry, east side
Creator:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (American architectural firm, founded 1939); Walter Andrew Netsch (American architect, born 1920)
Location:
site: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Location Note:
35 W. 33rd St.
Date:
1962 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1:
library (building)
Classification:
architecture
Material:
steel; glass
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Relation Work:
part of Illinois Institute of Technology Main Campus
Subjects:
architectural exteriors
Description:
The building was designed by architect Walter Netsch (a partner in SOM) and built in 1962. It is a 92,000 square-foot facility with a pleasing modern aesthetic. (Source: The Mies van der Rohe Society (IIT) [website]; http://www.mies.iit.edu/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-MVR-II-C2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Paul V. Galvin Library
