IIT’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center in Black and White
Exhibit Documents the Construction of IIT's Campus Center
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is pleased to present "Constructing Center: Framing the MTCC in Black and White," an art exhibition documenting the construction of IIT's McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC). The exhibition will be on display July 17 through September 26, 2008, in the Art@IIT Gallery in the Galvin Library, 35 West 33rd St., Chicago, on the university's main campus.
The exhibit, made up of selected black and white construction photographs taken by noted architectural photographer John Stamets, recognizes the fifth anniversary of the opening of MTCC, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Rem Koolhaas. Captured between December 2001 and May 2003, Stamets's photographs document the building's progress into completion. The exhibit consists of twenty carefully selected images which illuminate through light and shadow the beauty of MTCC's structural geometry.
Stamets is a faculty member of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, where he specializes in documenting historic buildings and properties to the standards of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). In addition to his documentation of MTCC's construction, Stamets has photographed the construction of the Experience Music Project in Seattle designed by Frank Gehry, the new Bellevue Art Museum in Bellevue, WA designed by Steven Holl and the new Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava.
Art@IIT was established in 2004, the product of a cross-discipline, interprofessional student project, with a mission to feature and promote the art of technology.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 7,300 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law. IIT's interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment. Visit www.iit.edu.
