Crown Hall, IIT’s College of Architecture building, is the centerpiece of a master campus plan designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1940. It has a grace and elegance that the brick and glass buildings around it do not, perhaps because, as Kevin Harrington, in the AIA Guide to Chicago writes:
"Crown Hall departs from the module that Mies established for the campus in his master plan. As a result, it...becomes what Mies called representational...[which] must declare the highest purposes and ideals of the institution."
The visitor ascends two thresholds to enter the building: low-rise stairs to a wide, uncovered, floating slab, and then a second stairway to the entrance doors. This entry procession helps "elevate" the building from its rather uninhabited and plain surroundings. There is a similar threshold procession to Mies' Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois.
Of the structure of Crown Hall, Harrington writes: "During the day, Crown Hall seems a precisely defined, translucent, and transparent volume in perfect repose. At night it becomes a reliquary of light, as its interior illumination appears to make the building seem almost to float on a cushion of light."Texto publicado em http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/crown/index.htm
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