Section I:
Philanthropy and Place
Philip D. Armour and Chicago’s Union Stock Yard: Facilitating Innovation and the Modern
Dominic A. Pacyga
The Beginnings of the Armour Institute Campus
Mindy C. Pugh
Philip D. Armour and his Family: Prairie Avenue to Lake Forest
Arthur Miller
Sermons for the City: Frank Wakely Gunsaulus and Sites of Social Activism on the South Side
Maureen A. Flanagan
Just Beneath the Surface: The Archaeology of Armour Flats, Mecca Flats, and the IIT Campus
Rebecca Graff
Section II:
Boulevards to Bronzeville
Before Bronzeville: Nineteenth Century Visions of Chicago’s South Side
Ann Durkin Keating
“A Plan in Defense of Culture”: Race, Space, and Cultural Activism, 1930s-1950s
Lionel Kimble, Jr.
A Bronzeville Muse: Archibald Motley’s Portrait of Edna Powell Gayle
Amy M. Mooney
A True Foundation: Shaping and Sustaining Chicago through Music and Song
Robert M. Marovich
Section III:
Campus and City
IIT in American Campus History
Paul V. Turner
A Curious Episode: Glessner House, Mies, and the Armour Institute
William Tyre
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the Development of the IIT Campus
Vittorio Pizzigon
The Bauhaus Legacy in Cambridge and Chicago: Two Cities, Two Trajectories
Jeffrey Lieber
Flatland: The Landscapes of IIT
Ron Henderson
Hilberseimer’s Chicago
Phillip Denny & Charles Waldheim
Section IV:
Pedagogy and Place
On the Eve of the Great Migration: Armour Institute’s Domestic Arts Curriculum and Black Metropolis Business
Elizabeth Schlabach
The Chicago School of Architecture. Architectural Education at the Armour and the Illinois Institutes of Technology: Curriculum Changes Over Time
Kevin Harrington
“Head, Heart and Hand”: Engineering Research and Education at Armour College
Edoarda Corradi Dell’Acqua
Applied Research at Department of Architecture and the Institute of Design: Bundled Tubes to Shelter Design
Thomas Leslie &
Zaida Garcia-Requejo
Carr Chapel: Toward a New “Moral Scientist”
Margaret Grubiak
Section V:
Urban Renewal and Its Discontents
Buffered Modernity: Preservation and Destruction on Chicago’s South Side
Daniel Bluestone
There Goes the Neighborhood: The Prehistory of Modern Urban Planning and Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Michael Carriere &
David A. Spatz
IIT and the Remaking of the South Side
D. Bradford Hunt
Wrestling with the Legacy: From the National Commission for IIT to the MTCC by Rem Koolhaas
Tibor Pataky
Less Is Not Always Enough: The Challenges of Preserving the IIT Campus
Gunny Harboe