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


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