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October 11, 2024
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La propuesta de Mies Van Der Rohe para el espacio urbano del Convention Hall

Publicated to: Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura. (30): 38-53 - 2024-01-01 (30), DOI: 10.12795/ppa.2024.i30.02

Authors:

Santatecla Fayos, José; Lizondo Sevilla, Laura; Cabanillas Cuesta, Amparo
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Affiliations

UAL, Cent St Martins - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Proyectos Arquitecton - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Proyectos Arquitecton, Grp Invest Arte & Arquitectura Contemporanea - Author
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Abstract

The Convention Hall proposed by Mies van der Rohe for the city of Chicago has been a much-referenced project by historians and critics who have studied his work. Its clarity, dimensions and structure, or rather its non-structure, have been recurrent themes of reflection. However, there is one aspect of his architecture in general and of this project in particular that has received little attention: the urban design process capable of accommodating this enormous space. The Convention Hall was not only important because of its scale, but also because it was to contribute to the urban regeneration of an area on the south side of Chicago in keeping with the guidelines of the Burnham Plan of 1909. The infrastructure was inaugurated in 1960, discarding Mies' proposal, and the project of his former assistant Gene Summers, who worked for the firm C.F. Murphy, was built. This article explores the design process and the formal relationship between the filling-the building- and the empty-urban space- of Mies' proposal which, despite not being built, continues to provide valid considerations for today's cities. To do so, the plans and documents in the archive are analysed and compared, both for the proposal presented by Mies and for the studies that he continued to develop with his students at the IIT. Mies never really gave up on seeing his longed-for universal space built. The question arises as to whether the essence of the Convention Hall was a building or simply an urban space.
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Keywords

Building scaleChicagoContexto urbanoDesignDesign,building scaleEscala ediliciaFilling-empty spaceProyectoRegeneración urbanaUrban contextUrban regeneration

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-03:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United Kingdom; United States of America.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Santatecla Fayos, José) and Last Author (Cuesta, AC).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Santatecla Fayos, José.

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