COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Perlstein Hall
Image View:
Detail of southeast corner
Creator:
Holabird & Root (American architectural firm, renamed 1928); Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969)
Location:
site: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Location Note:
10 W. 33rd Street
Date:
1945-1946 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1:
university
Work Type 2:
office building
Work Type 3:
classroom
Classification:
architecture
Material:
steel; glass
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Relation Work:
part of Illinois Institute of Technology Main Campus
Subjects:
architectural exteriors
Description:
Perlstein Hall is the largest building in the Mies Campus Academic Core. It houses many of the university's administrative offices, including the undergraduate admission office, the president's office, and Institutional Advancement; it also houses laboratories and classrooms for Chemical and Environmental Engineering. The landscaping of the walkway west of Perlstein Hall is executed in the manner Mies envisioned for the entire campus. The native trees were selected and placed by Alfred Caldwell, a student and colleague of Mies who landscaped much of IIT's campus. Perlstein's small interior courtyard makes it unique among campus buildings. (Source: The Mies van der Rohe Society (IIT) [website]; http://www.mies.iit.edu/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-MVR-II-B6
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Perlstein Hall
