Tribune Tower Two, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Plan
- Medium
- Ink, computer graphic, and watercolor wash on paper
- Dimensions
- 74 × 58.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- presentation drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
architectural drawingChicagopresentation drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Walter Netsch, former principal at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, is well known for his work with field theory, a method of design based on fields of rotated grids. In the 1960s Netsch applied this technique to a number of projects, including the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. His contribution to Late Entries playfully extrudes the grid into a tower, a pattern that he described as a butterfly in a field of flowers.
