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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A drawing of a house with a curved facade and an inky black shadow cast on it, situated around a sunken garden amidst foliage.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Jacobs House, Middleton, Wisconsin, Perspective, 1944

Frank Lloyd Wright

A perspective drawing of a city with tall rectilinear buildings on city blocks connected by flat bridges with roadways below.

Highrise City (Hochhausstadt): Perspective View: North-South Street, 1924

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A detailed elevation drawing in gray tones of a skyscraper with a tiered facade, an attached low-rise building on its left.

NBC Corporate Center: West Elevation (Presentation Drawing), 1986

Adrian D. Smith

A work made of terracotta.

Architectural Panel with Deer, 14th/15th century

A work made of copper-plated bronze.

Chicago Stock Exchange Building: Kick Plate from Front Entrance, 1894

Louis H. Sullivan

A drawing of the ornamentation for an architectural plate with circular and organic elements. Title reads, "Interpenetration with resultant forms and development."

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 13, Interpenetration, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A floor plan drawing of a building with four quadrants and a rhythmic semicircular facade. Some spaces are labeled.

Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, Floor Plan, c. 1970-71

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of graphite on strathmore paper.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 12, Values of Overlap and Overlay, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A symmetrical gold and silver frieze panel with a section of a repeating ornate geometric and organic patterning in relief.

Schiller Theatre Building, Chicago, Illinois: Banquet Room Frieze Panel (Restored), c. 1891/93

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

Multiple detail drawings of a window on toned paper, including design and construction notes.

860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, Details, 11/22/1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A work made of gray earthenware with impressed and carved decoration.

Pair of Tomb Chamber Doors, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9), 1st century B.C.

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Architecture, Early California Cemetery, 1932/36, printed 1936

Ansel Adams

A work made of engraving on paper.

Architecture, n.d.

Étienne Delaune

A drawing of ten squares showing the development of a layered ornamental pattern. Below is a drawing on one large square with partial detail.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 1, The Inorganic, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

Two rectangular grille panels with matching patterns made up of circles arranged into rows and columns with additional linear details.

Chicago Stock Exchange Building: Two Elevator Enclosure Grilles, with Base Plates and Side Support Bars, 1893/94

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A drawing of a classical building, with columns on the facade and elongated dome, in front of a reflection pool lined by trees.

Proposed Chicago Civic Center, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, 1908

Jules Guérin

A black-and-white image of a window with an asymmetrical geometric gridded pattern in a wooden frame.

Emil Bach House, Chicago, Illinois: Window, c. 1915

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of graphite on strathmore paper.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 17, A Geometrical Play-Ground, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of slip-glazed terra-cotta.

Winged Victory Figure, from the Cornice of the Title Guarantee Building, 1898

Eames and Young, Architects

A black-and-white photo collage featuring Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall building—a long, rectangular, single-story building with walls of glass windows—submerged in a large body of water at 45 degrees, against a cloud-filled sky.

The Titanic, 1978

Stanley Tigerman