Historic Register recognizes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe campus plan
Earlier this week we featured a Clipping regarding the reopening of IIT’s Crown Hall set for this weekend. With the most recent news of the campus's historic designation, we'll take a larger look at the IIT campus.
The National Park Service has announced that the academic campus of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in close association with landscape architect Alfred Caldwell, the design concept of pavilions within a park setting is one of the most important examples of modern planning in the United States.
"The addition of our campus to the National Register is a reflection of the historical, cultural and architectural importance of IIT within Chicago and throughout the world," said IIT President Lew Collens.
In addition to the modernist structures by Mies and other modern architects, the school has launched a recent building campaign with new buildings by Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn. Eextensive landscape restoration and extension of Caldwell's original landscape of native prarie terrain has been undertaken by Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architects.
Many links to articles and photo galleries for you to enjoy along with our own brief image montage.
Link: IIT
Link: Mies van der Rohe Society
Article: Chicago Sun Times - All of IIT named to historic register
Via: Archinect
Update 10/4/05:
Link: Coudal's Crown Hall page - film & photos
MORE LINKS:
Firm: Fujikawa Johnson and Associates - Crown Hall Resotration Architect
Firm: Peter Lindsay Schaudt - Landscape improvements and restoration
Firm: Lohan and Associates - Campus Master Plan
Photos: IIT Photos by Prof. Peter Y. Johnson
Photos: Digital Imaging Project - Crown Hall and Chapel of Saint Savior (Mies)
Photos: Digital Imaging Project - Paul V. Galvin Library (SOM/Walter Netsch)
Article: Repeat - Oedipus Rem
Link: ASLA Design Award
View Land+Living Maps in a larger map
IIT Campus map, Mies designed buildings shown in red
Restoration work on Mies' Crown Hall
Detail of Crown Hall
Chapel of Saint Savior
Overview of campus with Murphy/Jahn's State Street Village student residence complex (foreground), and Rem Koolhaas/OMA's McCormick Tribune Campus Center (center)
More on McCormick Tribune Campus Center (left), More on State Street Village (right)
Crown Hall Field
Landscape elements
Crown Hall
chapel