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Close frontal view depicting service bays (filled with brick); The steel, brick and glass curtain walls, show Mies's mastery of relating the plan with the facade. The resulting variety -- all-glass bays, glass and brick bays, and all-brick bays -- lends contrast and rhythm. Siegel Hall houses the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Source: The Mies van der Rohe Society (IIT) [website]; http://www.mies.iit.edu/ (accessed 12/2/2007)