(centre left): Letter affirming David Haid’s employment with Mies van der Rohe, 1 December 1953 (Canadian Centre for Architecture, David Haid documentary file, facsimile). Winnipeg-born David Haid received his Bachelor of Architecture at the the University of Manitoba in 1950, working for Green, Blankstein, Russell & Associates to support his education. Russell encouraged him to begin graduate studies with Mies van der Rohe at IIT, which he did in 1951, completing the program in 1953. In 1952 Mies hired Haid to work in his private architectural office, where he stayed until 1960. He also taught at IIT. While in Mies’ office, Haid worked on Crown Hall at IIT. He was Project Architect for Mies’ first addition to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in the late 1950s. In a letter to Russell dated 1 September 1953 in the Canadian Centre for Architecture archives, Haid wrote “I have found the work here most interesting and had the good fortune to be able to teach in the department last semester… Working in Mies’ office and teaching at IIT is excellent experience and always very stimulating.” Haid moved to Houston in 1960, but returned to Chicago in 1963 to found David Haid & Associates. He had a successful career in the Chicago area. Upper left: Perspective ’56 (University of Manitoba) open to show projects by John B. Parkin, Associates, Toronto (University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections). Lower left: Perspective ’61 (University of Manitoba) open to show projects by Libling, Michener & Associates and Waisman, Ross & Associates (University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections). Centre: Detlef Mertins, ed., brochure for the conference “The Presence of Mies,” held Toronto, 26 September, 1992; lower right: brochure for and invitation to the opening of the exhibition “Mies in America,” Phyllis Lambert, curator, CCA, 2001. Upper right: College of Architecture, Planning and Design (S. R. Crown Hall), Illinois Institute of Technology, 1952. Mies van der Rowe with David Haid, et al., illustrated in: Arts and Architecture, April 1961, 12-13 and August 1954, 16-17; Administration Building for Krupp Industries, Federal Republic of Germany, Mies van der Rohe, 1961, as illustrated in: Arts and Architecture, July 1961, 20 (Unless otherwise indicated, items are from a private collection)