Siegel Hall

(1946 [constructed 1956-57], Mies van der Rohe)

Siegel Hall offers an example of the "Mies corner." The walls of the building pull back at the corner to reveal a recessed steel column. This visible column represents the actual supporting column just behind. Note that the visible column is not sunk into the ground, but rests on a brick base. The square columns just behind the glass wall of the west entrance lobbyþspaced every 24 feetþare part of the actual structural frame of the building.

Siegel Hall houses the Lewis Department of Humanities and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering classrooms, labs, and offices as well as the IIT Writing Center.