Art, architecture and design students at Indiana University are now able to pursue their disciplines within the newly opened Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, which owes its design to none other than modernist architecture maestro Mies van der Rohe. The building, which has been carefully adapted for contemporary...
The Eskenazi School Of Art, Architecture + Design headquarters in Indiana, designed by Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s but never realised, has been brought to life by Thomas Phifer and PartnersArt, architecture and design students at Indiana University are now able to pursue their disciplines within the newly opened Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, which owes its design to none other thanmaestro Mies van der Rohe.
The road led Indiana University to uncover documentation of Mies van der Rohe’s design and the project, in the archives of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2019, the university announced that it would finally turn the two-storey, 100,000 sq ft building into a reality, with a $20m donation from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi to cover part of the construction costs.
The building houses lecture, workshop, collaborative and office spaces, with a central, open-air atrium bringing an added lightness to its interior. With visible architectural connections made to Mies van der Rohe’s other contemporaneous creations, such as theand early concepts for the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Eskenazi School is a true treasure to behold.
‘We are thrilled to mark the opening of the Mies Building, which will enable faculty and students of all our school’s programmes to come together and collaborate,’ says Peg Faimon, the school’s dean. ‘Just as important, this magnificent building shows who we are, representing the excellence to which we are committed. There can be no greater inspiration for us than to learn and work in a masterpiece by this titan of 20th-century architecture.
In celebration of its opening, the school will host a public open house on 8 April 2022. Thomas Phifer and Partners is also responsible for the university’s Ferguson International Center, which is currently under construction across the street from the Eskenazi School. §
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