Walter Andrew Netsch
American, 1920-2008
Tribune Tower Two, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Plan
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Walter Andrew Netsch
American, 1920-20081981
Tribune Tower Two, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Plan
Walter Andrew Netsch American, 1920-2008 →presentation drawingarchitectural drawing
Date
1981
Medium
Ink, computer graphic, and watercolor wash on paper
Dimensions
74 × 58.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Walter A Netsch
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.
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