Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall is a Chicago Landmark, a National Historic Landmark, and on the National Register of Historic Places. The iconic building is also home to IIT College of Architecture, a classroom for studio projects, and a showcase for student exhibits at the annual spring Open House.
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Second-year students generate ideas and develop their graphics skills in studio.
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Adjunct Associate Professor John DeSalvo and Maria Villareal Canales (ARCH 4th year), a visiting student from Mexico, discuss her model for a new resort hotel and yoga retreat for the Coconut Grove district of Miami.
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Karolina Gorz (ARCH 2nd year) explores the potential of the wood frame as a structural lattice for an Educational Pavilion at Northerly Island in a project with Studio Associate Professor Timothy Brown and Adjunct Assistant Professor Casimir Kujawa.
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Second-year architecture student Myles Peña exhibits his basswood design of an aurora borealis observatory for a steeply sloped rural site in Finland. The openings in the form create a shaft of light that runs longitudinally through the building.
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Collin Janecek (ARCH 4th year) adjusts the landscaping that is part of his model for the Tucson Environmental Center, a project he worked on with Adjunct Associate Professor Karla Sierralta.
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Fourth-year architecture student Daniel Craven with his contribution to the Tucson Environmental Center project.
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In a color installation project coordinated by Paul Pettigrew and Kathleen Nagle, studio associate professors, first-year architecture students select a work of art from the Art Institute of Chicago and explore color manipulation through the use of reflected light.
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More color manipulation ideas from first-year architecture students.
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Chairs from the IIT College of Architecture permanent collection inspire first-year students to design similar chairs from cardboard, in a project coordinated by faculty members Paul Pettigrew and Kathleen Nagle.
Photo by Bonnie Robinson