Institute of Design IIT
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Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), previously known for the New Bauhaus, is a college teaching systemic, human-centered design.
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[edit] History
The institute of Design was founded in 1937 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus alumnus.
After an unsuccessful spell in London, Moholy-Nagy, at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago in 1937 to become the director of the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt designed for department store magnate Marshall Field.
Unfortunately, the school lost the financial backing of its supporters after only a single academic year and it closed in 1938. Paepcke, however, continued his own support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design. He authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book Vision in Motion.
[edit] Graduate programs
The Institute of Design offers two professional degrees, the Master of Design and the Master of Design Methods, as well as a research degree, the PhD, which was the first doctoral program in design in the United States.[1]
[edit] Conferences
The Institute of Design annually organizes two large design conferences in the Chicago Area. The Strategy Conference is a student run event bringing international executives together to address how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities. Another student run event, about with and for, is a conference that deals with emerging trends in Design Research.
[edit] Institute of Design former names and locations
New Bauhaus - American School of Design
- 1938 Prairie Avenue, Chicago
The School of Design in Chicago
- 1939-1945 Ontario Street, Chicago
The Institute of Design
- 1945 N. State Street, Chicago
- 1946 - 1956 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago
- 1956 S.R. Crown Hall IIT campus on South State Street
[edit] Prominent alumni
- Ivan Chermayeff. Principal of Chermayeff & Geismar, son of former Institute of Design director Serge Chermayeff and designer of the Chase Manhattan Bank logo among other achievements.
- Roger Sweet (MS 1960), Creator of He-Man from Mattel
- American sculptor John Henry Waddell
[edit] External links
- Institute of Design web site
- RecruitID: recruiting event organized by ID students
- Institute of Design's Strategy Conference
- Institute of Design's About, With & For Conference
- Institute of Design's Biweekly Students' Newsletter
- IIT's Galvin Library Institute of Design exhibit
- Institute of Design PhD program web site
