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Art Institute Chicago
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A work made of ink on tracing paper.

1992 World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois: Pespective Rendering of Ferris Wheel, Looking West through Navy Pier Atrium, 1977

Harry Weese

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 copper-plated bronze.

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

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 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

A work made of ink on drawing paper.

Double House for Mr. Straus, Perspective View, 1883

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A work made of limestone.

Capital with the Adoration of the Magi, 1110/30

Spanish

A drawing of a towering skyscraper colored in orange and red set atop a gray structure of several stories. The tower is the shape of a square column, with "Chicago Tribune" written along the top section.

Late Entry to the Tribune Tower Competition, 1980

Robert A. M. Stern

A floor plan of a circular apartment building with three radiating sections drawn in detail to depict different apartments.

Marina City Apartment Layout, Chicago, Illinois, Plan, April 5, 1960

Bertrand Goldberg