IIT Institute of Design
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Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), originally founded as the New Bauhaus, is a graduate school teaching systemic, human-centered design.
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[edit] History
The IIT Institute of Design is a school of design founded in 1937 in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus teacher (1923-1928).
After a spell in London, Bauhaus master Moholy-Nagy, at the invitation of Chicago's Association of Art and Industry, moved to Chicago in 1937 to start a new design school, which he named the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its first headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt, designed for department store magnate Marshall Field.
Due to financial problems the school briefly closed in 1938. However, Walter Paepcke, Chairman of the Container Corporation of America and an early champion of industrial design in America, soon offered his personal support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy re-opened the school as the Chicago School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design, and in 1949 it became part of the new Illinois Institute of Technology university system.
Moholy 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 (MDes) and the Master of Design Methods (MDM), as well as a research degree, the PhD, which was the first doctoral program in design in the United States, and a dual MDes / MBA degree program, also the first of its kind, with the IIT Stuart School of Business. [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, the Design Research Conference, deals with emerging trends in design research.
[edit] Institute of Design Directors
- 1937 - 1945 László Moholy-Nagy
- 1946 - 1951 Serge Chermayeff
- 1951 - 1955 Crombie Taylor (acting)
- 1955 - 1969 Jay Doblin
- 1969 - 1974 James S. Montague (acting)
- 1974 - 1982 various
- 1982 -1986 Dale Fahnstrom
- 1986 - Present Patrick Whitney
[edit] Prominent Former Faculty
- Alexander Archipenko
- John Cage
- Hugo Webber
- Arthur Siegel, Photography (1946-1949 and 1967-1977)
- Harry Callahan, Photography (1947-1961)
- Buckminster Fuller
- Gyorgy Kepes
- Ralph Rapson
- Aaron Siskind, Photography (1951-1971)
- Jay Doblin, Director (1954-1968)
[edit] Institute of Design former names and locations
New Bauhaus - American School of Design
- 1938: 1905 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago
The School of Design in Chicago
- 1939 - 1945: 247 E. Ontario Street, Chicago
The Institute of Design
- 1945 - 1946: 1009 N. State Street, Chicago
- 1946 - 1956: 632 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago (now an Excalibur nightclub)
- 1956 - 1989: S.R. Crown Hall IIT campus on South State Street
- 1989 - 1996: 10 West 35th Street (ITRI on IIT campus)
- 1996 - Present: 350 N. LaSalle Blvd, Chicago
[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
- Charles L. Owen (MS 1965), creator of the Structured Planning method for complex systems design
- John Henry Waddell, American sculptor
- Richard Nickel, American Photographer
- Robert Brownjohn, American Graphic Designer
- Louis Sauer,(student 1949 to 1953), American Architect
[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 Design Research Conference
- Institute of Design's biweekly student newsletter, the New Idiom
- IIT's Galvin Library Institute of Design exhibit
- Institute of Design PhD program web site
