The Field North of Crown Hall is the main open space of the historic Mies van der Rohe campus and was chosen by IIT to be the first implementation project of the 1999 Landscape Master Plan.  The intent for the space was to create a “special, honorific, and welcoming landscape...that marks arrival at the center of the IIT campus.”  The new Field is a sunken, almost rectangular, lawn which gently curves to accommodate an existing grove of mature Honeylocusts.  The subtle change in topography provides a large, multi-use outdoor space as well as the opportunity for informal seating on the lawn slopes.  The planting plan and palette are in the prairie style, an influence of Mies’ landscape architect, Alfred Caldwell.