Mies’s Crown Hall
S. R. Crown Hall (1956)
Material: Steel
Structural system: Four (4) transverse, external, rigid plate girder-column bents with suspended roof system
Maximum span: 120 ft.
“Let this building be the dome of ideas and adventures, real ideas, ideas based on reason, ideas about facts. Then the building will be of great service to our students and in the end a real contribution to our civilization. We know that will not be easy, noble things are never easy. Experience teaches us that they are as difficult as they are rare.”
