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A work made of wrought iron.

Lunette from the Commerce Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1885/86

Burnham and Root

A model of a 19-story office block and 25-story tower with green tinted glass curtain walls and stainless-steel mullions, or bars between the panes of glass.

Inland Steel Building: Model of Final Design, c. 1954/55

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

A work made of ink, watercolor, and pastel on a printed map.

Plate 74 from The Plan of Chicago,1909: Chicago. Diagram of the City Center, Showing the General Location of Existing Freight Yards and Railroad Lines, the Present Tunnel System and Proposed Circuit, and Connections for all these Services, Running to the Central Clearing Yards., 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A presentation perspective drawing for city block construction featuring two skyscraper towers and a connecting central atrium.

Block 37 Proposal, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, 1985

Murphy/Jahn Architects

A work made of graphite on tracing paper.

Northwest Tower, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, c. 1928/29

Perkins, Chatten & Hammond

An aerial view of a house model set on a topographic map, the structure depicted as a complex network of lines and colors.

Camouflage House, Burr Ridge, Illinois, Model, 1991

Garofalo Architects

Diana Court Clerestory Windows

Diana Court Clerestory Windows, 1929

Edgar Miller

Painting of a woman and an older white man holding a pitchfork, both seen from the waist up. They stand side by side with stern expressions, in front of a white house with a peaked roof.

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

A work made of charcoal on tracing paper.

United States Post Office, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation, c. 1930

Edward Herbert Bennett

A work made of graphite, print, and zip-a-tone on vellum.

Marina City, Chicago, Illinois, Bridge Level Site Plan, 1961–62

Bertrand Goldberg

A model of a tall metallic building with a triangular void at the bottom-left portion that constitutes a third of the building's total height.

American Medical Association Building, Chicago, Illinois, Study Model, 1988

Kenzo Tange

A sepia-toned aerial perspective drawing of Chicago's lakefront and the city behind it.

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park., 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

An architectural model of a building made up of white composite forms resembling rhythmic skeletal fragments on a clear base.

Sur, Long Island City, New York, 2005

Hernán Díaz Alonso

A work made of graphite on white tracing paper.

John Garvey House Number 1, Urbana, Illinois: Upper Level and Roof Plan, 1952

Bruce Goff

A work made of oil on canvas.

By-Products Plants, 1923–26

Joseph Stella

A work made of graphite on tracing paper.

Gene and Nancy Bavinger House, Typical Fixed Glass Mullions, Norman, Oklahoma, Detail Drawings, 1950–1951

Bruce Goff

A work made of terracotta.

Fragment of an Architectural Model, 14th/15th century

A work made of various.

Adler Small House Alterations and Additions, Libertyville, Illinois, Working Drawings, 1931-33

David Adler, Architects

A work made of colored pencil on faded diazo lineprint on paper.

Sydney H. and Geri Rodin House, Libertyville, Illinois: Exterior Perspective Showing South Elevation, c. 1961

Bruce Goff

A work made of marble.

Capital with Bull and Worker, 1100/25

Lombard

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