Student Project for Concert Hall, Perspective Collage
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Where is “Student Project for Concert Hall, Perspective Collage” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
About the work
In 1942 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students began working on a conceptual design for a concert hall, which would have a profound influence on the architect’s development of open-plan pavilions. In the work seen here, Mies’s student Daniel Brenner cited Albert Kahn’s 1937 aircraft factory as a specific inspiration for this type of clear-span construction: an image of this open industrial structure forms the photographic support for the collage. Mies was fascinated with American building methods and the economical language of technology as important symbols of their time.
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Details
- Accession number
- 1988.33
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
