Institute of Design collection, 1927-1970.

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Institute of Design collection, 1927-1970.

Institute of Design collection, 1927-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54402260

The papers in this collection are those of faculty members and individuals associated with the Institute of Design and, as such, are not the official records of the Institute. These records pertain to the establishment of the Institute of Design in Chicago, Illinois under the direction of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy; financial backing by Chicago's art community; the courses and plan of study of the Institute; the work, theories, and art school of Richard Buckminster Fuller; prefabrication; the work of the Bauhaus staff at Mills College, in Oakland California; the philosophy, teachings and artistic school of the Bauhaus; the work and contributions of Bauhaus artists such as Walter Gropius, Ludwig van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Serge Chermayeff, and Gyorgy Kepes; and the merger of the Institute of Design with the Illinois Institute of Technology.

6 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC