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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

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 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

A wall fragment with five metal grill panels—two small horizontal rectangular panels at the top and three larger vertical ones on the bottom. Vertical bars dominate the design, with cross bars forming 90-degree angles. The upper and lower registers of the three large panels feature geometric designs.

Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Illinois, 1894

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of black and colored inks on paper.

Celia L. Marriott Apartment, Chicago, Illinois, Isometric, 1983

Krueck & Olsen

A work made of cast iron.

Newel Post from the Morris Selz House, Chicago, Illinois, 1883 (demolished 1967)

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A work made of cast iron.

Cornice Section from the Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1898–99 (removed 1955)

Louis H. Sullivan

A three-dimensional drawing of landscape viewed from above, low mountains on the horizon. The land is divided into a grid pattern of blocks. Some blocks are filled with foliage while others have a single, identical, multistory rectangular building on the left side.

Mixed Height Housing Development (Mischbebauung), Berlin, Germany, Aerial Perspective, c. 1930

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

A work made of black and red ink on linen.

Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Basement Plan, 1909/11

Louis H. Sullivan

A detailed graphite drawing of an ornate architectural pattern consisting of repeated geometric and organic shapes.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 18, Untitled, 1923

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of ink & pressure sensitive film on paper.

Monument to the French Revolution at the Pont des Arts, Paris, France, Perspective Study, 1989

Architecture Studio

A perspective aerial drawing of Chicago's lakefront and harbor, park and cityscape sprawling beyond it to the top of the page.

View Looking West Over the City, 1909 Plan of Chicago, 1907

Jules Guérin

A work made of cast concrete.

Midway Gardens, Cottage Grove Avenue and 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois: Block from Façade, 1913/14

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of pen and black ink on cream wove paper.

Sketches of Roman Architecture, c. 1935

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

An elevation drawing of a multistory building with a slightly pitched roof, a large arched entryway, and multiple bands of windows. The ground level is colored blue while the upper levels have red details.

Rookery Building, Chicago, Illinois, LaSalle Street Elevation, 1885/87

Burnham and Root

A perspective drawing of a rectilinear-base building lined with trees. Extending up from the base are three thin columns topped by multistory round-windowed, modular towers with curved walls.

Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, c. 1970

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of terra-cotta.

Balusters from the Robert W. Roloson Houses, Chicago, Illinois, 1894

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of graphite, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board.

Thirty-Four Hundred Sheridan Road Apartment Building, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective, c. 1918/23

White & Weber

A work made of marker on tracing paper.

Marina City, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Looking West, 1985

Bertrand Goldberg