Emigration and renewal : the Resor house and the IIT campus

Invited to teach at Chicago's Armour Institute, which in 1940 became the IIT - Illinois Institute of Technology, Mies van der Rohe studied a first house in Wyoming, attempting to capture the broad horizons of the West in its glazed volume. As part of the master plan for IIT, which he drew up with Ludwig Hilberseimer, he built some twenty buildings, constantly perfecting a steel construction principle from which he derived the most elegant tectonic effects. With the Crown Hall in 1956, he created the first version of a new type of building - the large, open building with no intermediate load-bearing points.