CHICAGO IIT: TECH CAMPUS

According SFMOMA, in 2x4’s work with OMA / Rem Koolhaas for the McCormick Tribune Center in Chicago, the idea of the universal student was turned into hundreds of pictograms to represent the range of activities on campus. And hidden amid the figures studying and thinking are a few iconic references to more memorable college transgressions. The pictograms appear in differing scales and contexts, the most outstanding being the application of hundreds of circular pictograms to the Center’s facade that, from a distance, become the face of Mies van der Rohe, the original campus architect. To enter, you must put your foot in Mies’ mouth.

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