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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 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 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 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 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 cast iron.

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

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 black and red ink on linen.

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

Louis H. Sullivan

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

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 work made of cast concrete.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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 pen and black ink on cream wove paper.

Sketches of Roman Architecture, c. 1935

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

A work made of marker on tracing paper.

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

Bertrand Goldberg

A model of three cylindrical towers situated in a triangular formation and connected by Y-shaped bridges at three levels.

River City I, Chicago, Illinois, Model, c. 1977

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of terra-cotta.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A detailed sketch in black of a building with a tall tower surrounded by shorter structures more loosely defined.

Carbon and Carbide Building, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective Sketch, 1927–28

Burnham Brothers, Architects

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