Modern Dynamics 1: Chicago

Adam Michaels & Shannon Harvey

László Moholy -Nagy (1895–1946) moved to Chicago in 1937, serving as director of the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design [1939] and the Institute of Design [1944]) from 1937–1946. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) moved to Chicago in 1938, serving as director of the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1938–1958. Chicago provided each with an unprecedented opportunity to develop their parallel, if substantively disparate, approaches to modern design.

Modern Dynamics is a series of visual compositions exploring relationships between the people and places underpinning significant developments in the history of modernism.