The Mies van der Rohe Society, in partnership with Illinois Institute of College of Architecture, held a celebration of light for the winter solstice, featuring a solo performance of Bach by David Taylor, assistant concertmaster and violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The event included a gallery of archival Ludwig Hilberseimer drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago and watercolors of Mies and Gene Summers from the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
David Taylor
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Commentators:
Reed Kroloff, Dean, College of Architecture
Michelangelo Sabatino, Professor, College of Architecture
Kevin Harrington, Professor Emeritus, Architectural History
John Vinci (ARCH ‘60), Board of Advisors, Mies van der Rohe Society
Jong Soung Kimm (ARCH ‘61, M.ARCH. ‘64), Board of Directors, Mies van der Rohe Society
Hilb’s Day is a longstanding Illinois Tech tradition to celebrate the shortest day of the year. Ludwig K. Hilberseimer (1885–1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and Mies van der Rohe. He was founder and chair of Illinois Tech’s Department of City and Regional Planning where he taught from 1938 until his passing in 1967. At Illinois Tech, he developed a universal, adaptable system, which planned for the darkest day of the year (“Hilb’s Day”) in order to produce environments with as much light as possible.
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