Constructing A Building From Found Blueprints

In 2021, Indiana University opened a new building for the Eskenazi School of Architecture, a 10,000 sf administrative space with offices and conference rooms. The floating white steel structure bears all the hallmarks of a building designed by Mies van der Rohe. That is because it was designed by Mies, sixty-five years earlier as a Pi Lamda Phi fraternity house. The largely forgotten design was rediscovered, redrawn by the firm Thomas Phiffer and Partners, and constructed with some modern updates, but mostly just as Mies would have wanted it. This video traces the evolution of this building’s design and construction all the while questioning the role of authorship and originality in Architecture. Corrections: 01:09 Indiana University, not University of Indiana. I will make this mistake throughout. __Membership__ Join this channel to get access to perks: __About the Channel__ Architecture with Stewart is a YouTube journey exploring architecture’s deep and enduring stories in all their bewildering glory. Weekly videos and occasional live events breakdown a wide range of topics related to the built environment in order to increase their general understanding and advocate their importance in shaping the world we inhabit. __About Me__ Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture. __Contact__ FOLLOW me on instagram: @stewart_hicks & @designwithco Design With Company: University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: