Early Study for the Library and Administration Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective

Although many of Mies’s plans and models adopt a bird’s-eye view, his design for the IIT campus also relied heavily on sketches done at eye level. This allowed the architect to work out potential problem areas, such as the experience of approaching a building at human scale. These sketches and studies were then used by architects in his office to create working drawings for construction.