Glaser is organizing the symposium along with Eric Mumford, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture, and graduate architecture students. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Rafael Moneo and now Rem Koolhaas all have built or will build their first major American works on a university campus.
Universities also serve as repositories of great historical buildings.
I hope that people will come away from the conference understanding the value of both approaches. The AIAS conference, which also is being held at the architecture school, will draw student representatives from 10 architecture schools in the Midwest region. Sharon Haar, director of the Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will speak on the relationship of urban universities to their surrounding communities. Kevin Harrington, professor of architectural history at IIT, will discuss the IIT campus as an incomplete fragment of Mies van der Rohe's historic design and will present Rotterdam architect Rem Koolhaas' scheme for a new campus center. Jon D. Hlafter, director of the Office of Physical Planning at Princeton University, will explore how campus architecture reflects deeper changes in society.