Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Siegel Hall
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Preferred Title:
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Siegel Hall
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Image View:
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Detail of typical classroom windows where steel frame is exposed
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Creator:
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German architect, 1886-1969)
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Location:
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site: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
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Date:
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1946 (design); 1956-1957 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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International Style (modern European architecture style); Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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classroom
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Work Type 2:
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university
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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steel; glass; brick
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Relation Work:
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part of Illinois Institute of Technology Main Campus
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors
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Description:
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The steel, brick and glass curtain walls, show Mies's mastery of relating the plan with the facade. The resulting variety -- all-glass bays, glass and brick bays, and all-brick bays -- lends contrast and rhythm. Siegel Hall houses the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. (Source: The Mies van der Rohe Society (IIT) [website]; http://www.mies.iit.edu/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-MVR-II-D4
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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