IIT Summer Exhibition Showcases Photographic and Architectural History Makers

June 12 – August 3
S. R. Crown Hall
3360 S. State Street

This exhibit illustrates the important contributions by the architect Crombie Taylor, photographer Aaron Siskind, and IIT’s Institute of Design – in the early 1950s—work with revolutionary impact on our understanding of Louis Sullivan, an architect of central importance to the history of American architecture and Chicago.

This is the first remounting of Siskind's 1954 Institute of Design photographic survey of Sullivan's architecture and the first showing of Sullivan's polychromatic Auditorium Building and Garrick Building stencils since the 1960s. It coincides with the publication of co-curator Jeffrey Plank's new book, Aaron Siskind and Louis Sullivan: The Institute of Design Photo Section Project.

Exhibit hours: Daily 10 am – 3 pm (closed July 4 – 6)

Admission: $5

Opening night reception
Thursday, June 12, 6 – 8 pm (reservations are required)

Roundtable discussion
Saturday, June 14, 10 am – 12 pm (reservations are required)
Featuring former ID photography students in the Siskind/Sullivan project: Charles Estram, Len Gittleman, Alvin Loginsky, moderated by Jeffrey Plank

This exhibit is presented by the Mies van der Rohe Society with the cooperation of the Richard Nickel Committee. Special thanks to our sponsors: The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Lillian H. Florsheim Foundation for the Arts, and Tracy Dillard, Koenig & Strey.

	JOIN US FOR COCKTAILS, HORS D’OEUVRES AND A TOUR OF STREETERVILLE’S NEWEST ARCHITECTURAL WONDER JUNE 18, 2008 5:30–7:30pm DESIGNED BY THE RENOWNED HELMUT JAHN
“Helmut Jahn redefines skyscraper formula with his first condo tower in Chicago.” —Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune In 2003, Jahn, a Mies Society Board Member, unveiled his stunning State Street Village dormitory on the IIT campus – the place where he began his career as a graduate student 40 years ago. The sleek dormitory— Jahn’s first offering to Chicago in over a decade— has inspired his continued design of elegant, modern structures. At the heart of the Mies Society’s cause is the restoration and preservation of Mies’ buildings at IIT, but membership also affords exclusive tours, arts and culture collaborations, events, lectures and more.
Reservations required by June 6 312.567.5025 or miesmembership@iit.edu