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SABINE BITTER | HELMUT WEBER

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A series of photographs of the IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago taken in 2004/2005
The urban site of the IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) campus is a landmark in the architectural history of the United States of America. Mies van der Rohe made Chicago a seminal site of a transferred European, Bauhaus influenced modernism with his design of the campus and university architecture. The Crown Hall, a masterpiece within the whole ensemble of the campus serves as an icon of the success of functionality, transparency and light-flooded rationality in post World War II. ….