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Good riddance to bad Mies van der Rohe
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 11 days ago
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Here's a sentence I never thought I would write: It was good to see the demolition crews pulling down the building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies, as all architecture buffs know, was the master of steel-and-glass modernism, a towering intellect who...
Tags: test cell, IIT, Chicago, metra station, Metra, Mies, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Illinois Institute of Technology, Furniture, North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Bauhaus, S.R. Crown Hall
Mies building at IIT will come down for Metra station
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 24 days ago
Credibility Back in May, I told you about a little building , apparently designed by Mies van der Rohe, at the southwest corner of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus that was going to be demolished to make way for a Metra train station. The station, to be...
Tags: Metra, IIT, Chicago, 35-Bronzeville-IIT, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sox￢ﾀﾓ35th, Mies, 35th, Bauhaus, Furniture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
A message on the wall nailed IIT ‘killer’
New Delhi :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Neighbours thought of him as a slightly eccentric but harmless man who loved playing with children. On October 26, police arrested the reportedly mild-mannered, 34-year-old research scholar for allegedly strangling to death and then burning a 19-year-old...
Tags: compulsive disorder, South Delhi, obsessive compulsive, Delhi Police, New Delhi, IIT, Munirka
HSC primacy finds support in IITs
Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility But the question of how to compare marks awarded by various state and central education boards remains unresolved. Until the early 1960s, remembers Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur director Sanjay Dhanade, board toppers were admitted to IITs...
Kapil Sibal to meet IIT faculty tomorrow to end stand-off
New Delhi :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility The IIT faculty had gone on fast on September 24 to oppose certain provisions in the pay structure like 40 per cent cap on promotion of professors to senior grade and contractual appointment of Ph.D holders at the entry level. Sibal had disapproved the...
Tags: IIT, iits faculty, India, New Delhi
Protest over pay on, IIT profs to teach on empty stomach
New Delhi :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Thursday despite union human resources development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal snubbing them for their proposed agitation over the pay anomalies and new appointment conditions. “Our intention is not to counter him (Sibal). We are concerned that under the...
Tags: Kapil Sibal, IIT, iits faculty, hunger strike, human resources, minister kapil, India, New Delhi
The Saga of Indianism...
After a prolonged struggle India got freedom 62 years ago and since then our stupendous growth has made everyone wonder. Our biggest achievement- maintaining a reasonably fair democracy with other things like presence of India across the globe, landing...
Tags: chandyayaan, democracy, diversity, floods, green revolution, IIT, indianabroad, ISRO, NIT, racial discrimination
Save the Mies van der Rohe building in Chicago!
A little building and two walls by the 20th century modern master architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is threatened with demolition. A train company wants to tear it down to erect a station, but the land on the other 3 sides of the intersection is...
Tags: architecture, Chicago, IIT, Mies van der Rohe, Modernism, preservation
Catch them young
The general trend of the day is for parents to dream of getting their children in prestigious institutions whose name sells. Therefore there is a rush to clear the various competitive examinations and join the IITs or the IIMs. The amount of stress that...
Tags: prestigeous institutions, iit, iim, suicide, bridges to cross, parents proud
Reservations In Educational Institutions
Stephen Jay Gould once said:-I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. The criminal neglect of education,...
Tags: IIT, JEE, entrance exams, reservations
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