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{{Short description|Private graduate school of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois}}

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The '''Institute of Design (ID)''' is a graduate school of the [[Illinois Institute of Technology]], a private university in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], United States. The Institute of Design was founded in 1937 as "The New Bauhaus"<ref>{{Cite web |title=The New Bauhaus |url=https://id.iit.edu/new-bauhaus/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Institute of Design |language=en}}</ref> by [[László Moholy-Nagy]], a [[Bauhaus]] teacher (taught: 1923–1928). This school is a direct American descendant of the German Bauhaus. The school focuses on systemic and [[human-centered design]] with the following graduate-level degree programs:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Graduate School |url=https://id.iit.edu/graduate-school/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Institute of Design |language=en}}</ref>

* [https://id.iit.edu/graduate-school/master-of-design/ Master of Design] (MDes)
* [https://id.iit.edu/graduate-school/master-of-design-mba/ Master of Design + MBA] (MDes + MBA)
* Master of Design & Master of Public Administration (MDes + MPA)
* Master of Design Methods (MDM)
* PhD in Design

==History==

After a spell in London, Bauhaus master [[László Moholy-Nagy]], at the invitation of Chicago's Association of Art and Industry, moved to Chicago in 1937 to start a new design school, which he named '''The New Bauhaus'''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The New Bauhaus |url=https://id.iit.edu/new-bauhaus/ |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=Institute of Design |language=en}}</ref> The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original German Bauhaus, and its first headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect [[Richard Morris Hunt]] designed for department store magnate [[Marshall Field]].

Due to financial problems the school briefly closed in 1938. However, Walter Paepcke, Chairman of the [[Container Corporation of America]] and an early champion of industrial design in America, soon offered his personal support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy re-opened the school as the Chicago School of Design.<ref>{{cite book|title=Design of the 20th Century|first1=Charlotte|last1=Fiell|first2=Peter|last2=Fiell|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|page=343|isbn=9783822840788|oclc=809539744}}</ref> In 1944, this became the Institute of Design, and in 1949 it became part of the new [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] university system and also the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design.

Moholy authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book ''Vision in Motion''.

Archival materials are held by the [[Ryerson & Burnham Libraries]] at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. The Institute of Design Collection includes articles, letters, photographs, and other materials documenting the institute's history and works by faculty and students. Select archival film materials are held at [[Chicago Film Archives]], who store and provide access to a handful of Institute of Design films.

==Educational programs==
The Institute of Design offers two professional degrees, the [[Master of Design|Master of Design (MDes)]] and the Master of Design Methods (MDM), as well as a research degree, the PhD, which was the first doctoral program in design in the United States, a MDes/MPA program, and a dual MDes/MBA degree program, also the first of its kind, with the [http://www.stuart.iit.edu IIT Stuart School of Business]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610211357/http://www.id.iit.edu/99/]

At one time, the Institute of Design offered a Bachelor of Science in Design degree, with specialties in Photography, Product Design and Communication Design. The Bachelor's program was halted in 1998.

==Conferences==
The Institute of Design formerly organized two large design conferences in the Chicago area: The Strategy Conference for international executives and designers who come together to address how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, and the Design Research Conference, organized by students, exploring emerging trends in design research.

==Directors==
*1937–1945: [[László Moholy-Nagy]]
*1946–1951: [[Serge Chermayeff]]
*1951–1955: Crombie Taylor <ref>{{cite web|author=HERBERT MUSCHAMPPublished: June 04, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/arts/crombie-taylor-85-architect-who-helped-champion-bauhaus.html |title=Crombie Taylor, 85, Architect Who Helped Champion Bauhaus - New York Times |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1999-06-04 |access-date=2014-01-05}}</ref>(acting)
*1955–1969: [[Jay Doblin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.id.iit.edu/index.php?id=1109 |title=Jay Doblin on the evolution of design, 1974 |access-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719213122/http://www.id.iit.edu/index.php?id=1109 |archive-date=July 19, 2011 }}</ref>
*1969–1974: James S. Montague (acting)
*1974–1982: various
*1982–1986: Dale Fahnstrom
*1986–2017: Patrick Whitney<ref>{{cite web|url=http://id.iit.edu/|title=IIT Institute of Design (ID), a pioneering graduate school|website=IIT Institute of Design}}</ref>
*2017–2022: Denis Weil<ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.iit.edu/id-news/denis-weil-ends-term-as-dean/ |title=Denis Weil ends term as dean |website=id.iit.edu |date= 15 December 2021|access-date=March 25, 2022}}</ref>
*2023–present : Anijo Mathew<ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.iit.edu/story/anijo-mathew-appointed-dean-of-the-institute-of-design-id/ |title=Anijo Mathew Appointed Dean of the Institute of Design (ID) |website=id.iit.edu |date= 5 December 2022|access-date=January 9, 2025}}</ref>


==Prominent former faculty==
*[[George Anselevicius]] (1949–1952)
*[[Alexander Archipenko]]
*[[John Cage]]
*[[Harry Callahan (photographer)|Harry Callahan]], Photography (1947–1961)
*[[Jay Doblin]], Director (1954–1968)
*[[Buckminster Fuller]]
*[[Michael Higgins (glass artist)|Michael Higgins]], Head of Visual Design
*[[George Fred Keck]]
*[[György Kepes]]
*[[Michael McCoy]] and [[Katherine McCoy]] (1995–2003)
*[[Sharon Poggenpohl]] Professor and coordinator the PhD program (1987-2013)
*[[Ralph Rapson]] (1942–1946)
*[[Arthur Siegel (photographer)|Arthur Siegel]], Photography (1946–1949 and 1967–1977)
*[[Aaron Siskind]], Photography (1951–1971)
*[[Robert Bruce Tague]], Architecture<ref>{{cite web | last = Blum | first = Betty | title = Interview with Robert Bruce Tague | work = Chicago Architects Oral History Project | url = http://www.artic.edu/research/archival-collections/oral-histories/robert-bruce-tague-1912-1985}}</ref>
*[[Konrad Wachsmann]], Advanced Building Research (Director) (1950-1964) 
*[[Hugo Weber]] (1949- 1955) <ref>{{cite web|author=Archives of American Art |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/hugo-weber-papers-9330 |title=Summary of the Hugo Weber papers, 1932-1971 &#124; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |publisher=Aaa.si.edu |access-date=2014-01-05}}</ref>
*[[Massimo Vignelli]] (1958–1960)

==Former names and locations==
'''New Bauhaus - American School of Design'''
*1938: 1905 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago

'''The School of Design in Chicago'''
*1939–1945: 247 E. Ontario Street, Chicago

'''The Institute of Design'''
*1945–1946: 1009 N. State Street, Chicago
*1946–1956: 632 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago
*1956–1989: [[S.R. Crown Hall]] IIT campus on South State Street
*1989–1996: 10 West 35th Street (ITRI on IIT campus)
*1996–2016: 350 N. LaSalle Blvd, Chicago
*2016-2018: 565 W. Adams St, Chicago
*2018–Present: Kaplan Institute, 3137 S Federal St., Chicago

==Prominent alumni==
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*[[Robert Brownjohn]], artist and graphic designer
*[[Ivan Chermayeff]], Principal of [[Chermayeff & Geismar]], son of former Institute of Design director [[Serge Chermayeff]] and designer of the [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] logo among other achievements
*[[Linda Connor]], photography
*[[Burton Kramer]], graphic designer, artist, A.G.I., Order of Ontario, D.Des (Hon) O.C.A.D.U.
*[[June Leaf]], (attended 1947-1948, M.A. Art Education in 1954) painter, sculptor<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/293089/beer-with-a-painter-june-leaf/|title=Beer with a Painter: June Leaf|date=2016-04-23|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Estes W. Mann]] (Armour Institute), Memphis based architect who produced numerous NRHP listed residences
*[[Kenneth Josephson]], photographer
*[[Ray Metzker]], photographer
*[[Richard Nickel]], photographer and [[Historic preservation|architectural preservationist]]
*[[Louis Sauer]] (attended 1949 to 1953), architect
*[[Art Sinsabaugh]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/online_modules/sinsabaugh/|title=American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh|website=www.iub.edu|access-date=2018-01-04}}</ref> (B.A. 1949, M.S. 1967) American photographer; founded and led the photography/cinematography department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1959–83; founding member, Society for Photographic Education
*[[Roger Sweet]] (MS 1960), Toy inventor and creator of [[He-Man]] from Mattel
*[[Madeline Tourtelot]], artist, founder of the Peninsula School of Art
*[[John Henry Waddell]], sculptor
*[[Claire Zeisler]], fiber artist

==See also==
* [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] School of Architecture
* [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]
*The New Bauhaus, a documentary film about [[László Moholy-Nagy]], directed by [[Alysa Nahmias]] (2019).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nahmias|first=Alysa|date=|title=The New Bauhaus|url=https://www.thenewbauhaus.com/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-23|website=The New Bauhaus|language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.id.iit.edu Institute of Design web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226211902/http://www.id.iit.edu/ |date=26 February 2008 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090709090809/http://thenewidiom.com/ Institute of Design's biweekly student newsletter, the New Idiom]
* [http://archives.iit.edu/exhibits/id/ IIT's Galvin Library Institute of Design exhibit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311090151/http://archives.iit.edu/exhibits/id/ |date=2007-03-11 }}
* [http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/24/0/282/1/0 Chicago New Bauhaus School Alumnis] &#91;sic&#93;

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