The Echo of History [Reviews]

cases, relatively unknown contributors -often professors at the college in question -have been discovered, who have already done much of the work needed on their own time.IIT was selected for the most recent volume because PAP felt it had not paid enough attention to Modernist planning ideas, concentrating almost exclusively on more romantic and/or classical campus schemes.In this regard, an important part of the IIT book is a lengthy essay on the legacy of Mies Van de Rohe -from the Bauhaus to Crown Hall.The book also corresponds with IIT's own renewal of interest in its campus.For years the institute was content to rest on the laurels of the Mies plan.But it recently undertook a major landscape improvement program.Two buildings for a new century are also now completea student center by Rem Koolhaus, and dorms by Helmut Jahn -both occupying extremely diffi cult sites beneath and adjacent to elevated mass-transit tracks.