Tribune Architecture Critic Breaks With Preservationists: Threatened Mies IIT Building 'Utterly Dispensable'

Chicago Tribune:

You'd never suspect that a great architect shaped the clunky brick box at the corner of 35th and Federal Streets. But the master of the steel-and-glass box, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, designed this humble brick hut at the southwest edge of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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[BushBites]

07:48 AM on 05/08/2009

Not all the Mies designs were home runs.

There are enough of his good/great designs in Chicago that they don't need to hang on to some of his lesser efforts.