Convention Hall Project, Chicago, IL, Aerial and interior perspectives, exterior elevation, and sections
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
c. 1952-54
A small pencil-on-paper study in which Mies van der Rohe tests structural and spatial ideas for a convention hall—roof planes, trussed spans, and rhythmic columns—on the page.
The sheet reads as an airy, tentative map of structure: repeated diagonal strokes form trussed roofs and thin verticals while broad areas of blank paper make the spare geometry feel weightless.
As a working drawing it shows how Mies reduced architecture to precise structural rhythms, helping to define modernism’s emphasis on exposed structure and minimalist civic form.
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
6 x 8 1/2" (15.2 x 21.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
MR5306.5
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