The Illinois Institute of Technology

THE ‘TECHNOLOGY CENTRE’ in Chicago, home of the Illinois Institute of Technology, has become a place of pilgrimage both for those concerned with science and technology and also for others whose primary interests are in education, architecture and civic design. Four miles from the business centre of the city a site of 110 acres was acquired ‘by the railway tracks in Chicago's blighted South Side, the world's biggest slum’ and under the guidance of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Professor of Architecture at the Illinois Institute, the area is being transformed to become in the words of the Architectural Forum, probably ‘the best architectural expression of a technical college in the world — and perhaps the only consistent one’.