• George Danforth (draughtsman)
• George Danforth (student)
• Armour Institute of Technology (educational institution)
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (teacher)

Second-year architectural design studies made at the Armour Institute of Technology

1939-1940

- Group of student drawings by George Danforth for the second-year architectural design class taught by Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in 1939-1940. Mostly studies of or for structural details of steel-frame construction such as window embrasures and joints in metal beams. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.

• design drawings
• dessins conceptuels
• student drawings
• dessins de structure

Mostly graphite, with some pen and black ink and some red pencil

sheet (smallest): 21,7 x 28,1 cm sheet (largest): 21,7 x 33 cm

DR1990:0027:001-141

• line drawings
• sketches

• pictorial drawings
• sketch elevations (drawings)
• sketch plans (drawings)
• sketch sections (orthographic drawings)

- The drawings are stored with the brown duo-tang folder which originally housed the sheets. There are two holes on the left-hand side of each sheet where they were inserted into the duo-tang.

inscribed - on many of the sheets, by Mies van der Rohe, in graphite: "crit." and "MVDR", sometimes with date inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink and graphite, throughout: with building parts and materials, calculations, measurements and other annotations inscribed - on DR1990:0027:001, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.r.: "ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / STUDIES - 2nd YEAR / PROF. L. MIES VAN DER ROHE / 1939-40 / George Danforth" inscribed - on DR1990:0027:141, by the draughtsman, in graphite: with a list under the heading of "DETAILS COMPLETED"

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• houses
• windows
• walls
• columns (architectural elements)
• joints (connections)
• Modern Movement
• beams (structural elements)

© George Edson Danforth