Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Illinois Institute of Technology

This video about Mies van der Rohe and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago was created for the installation "Past Forward: Architecture and Design at the Art Institute."
Now on view: www.artic.edu/exhibition/past-...

[@geeet_eth]

The first guys has such a wonderful accent.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@cule189911]

this is interesting, i found it to be unappealing to the human scale. the buildings as individuals are very aware of human scale but the entire campus feels to be off.

[@FranklinPaine]

At min 4'04" without gloves?

[@aybigetek]

CROWN HALL is one of the best magical spaces on this planet of ours!

[@tonycosta3302]

I went to graduate school at IIT. It is a terrible campus. No sense of place. No central places where people gather. It almost always feels barren and sterile. Yes, the buildings make nice postcard images, but as a place to live and study, it’s terrible.

[@NarangiGajar25516]

Is it really that bad? I'm planning to go to grad school there. I have seen mixed opinions about IIT.

[@nishanthravichandiran4008]

@@NarangiGajar25516 you decided? are you going

[@viewfromthehillswift6979]

Hard edges, nothing to delight the eye. Sorry, Mies, but less is not more. It's just less.