La colaboración interdisciplinar entre el arquitecto y el paisajista Ludwig Mies van der Rohe y Alfred Caldwell en el IIT de Chicago y Lafayette Park de Detroit

Abstract

The objective of the present investigation is to carefully study an aspect that has been frequently overlooked in the architectural design field, the built environment and surrounding landscape relation, and the interdisciplinary collaboration in the labor field. In this case, the study is about the architect and landscape architect (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Alfred Caldwell) interdisciplinary labor relationship, in two emblematic projects. First of all, a recognition of the landscape architect career will be made through the approach to his training and work, for later document the work of the landscape architect, in which the relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright at the beginnings of his career had a strong influence on his professional practice. This answers the question of why the also famous architect, Mies van der Rohe, after meeting him in one of his projects, asks him to join his work team and collaborate as the landscape architect, especially in two of his greatest projects, the IIT campus in the city of Chicago and Lafayette Park in the city of Detroit, which are the focus of this investigation. Therefore, how the projects of this study were conceived is analyzed: the design approach, design criteria, and the formal - functional relations, between the built environment and landscape, all of these based on a collaborative interdisciplinary relationship, from which it is pretended to define as the final objective, the contributions and time of participation of each professional