Industrial Arts Building
1942
Wright's plans for this building are dated 1942, but it took until 1949 before sufficient funds were available to begin construction of the building. The design of the building includes two central courtyards, a southern refectory (dining room), and a circular "lecture amphitheater" at the north end of the central pavilion
The building emerges from the esplanade that connects it to the rest of the campus, due to the integration of the esplanade to form one side of the structure, and the many columns throughout the building. As a writer in Architectural Forum later described it: "The building does remain in character essentially a widened and heightened version of the esplanade, with walls added.... With it's beams growing from sculptural buttressesand angled in an emphatic rib likerow, it is very direct structurally."
These supports, both columnsand esplanade, combined with expansive glass surfaces to create a building very open to the outdoors. Many parts of the building particularly the original recreation pavilion and refectory, were little more than glassed-in esplanades with higher roofs.
Wright also used angled roofs, slanting toward the center at 30 degrees, to allow for larger clerestory windows to bring abundant natural light into the building.
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