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Chicago architect Gene Summers dies
McCormick Place Lakeside Center by Gene Summers
Chicago architect Gene Summers, the former dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the chief designer of the muscular McCormick Place convention hall, died Monday. Summers also served as a right-hand man for Mies van der Rohe, working on such significant projects as the Seagram Building in New York.
— featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com
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Gene Summers Oral history includes anecdotes of working with Mies. Mies asked Summers several times to be his partner which he declined out of respect for his teacher.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/oralhistories/summers.html
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