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A color drawing of a spiral-shaped, stone-clad house with a suspended bridge projecting from it on the left, trees in the background.

Gene and Nancy Bavinger House: North Elevation Showing Suspension Bridge over Ravine, 1950/51

Bruce Goff

A colorful drawing of a site plan for an airport, a plane in the foreground with a cityscape and large lake in the background.

O'Hare Field Master Plan, Illinois, Presentation Drawing, Aerial View, 1952

Ralph Burke Associates

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

Empire Room Lobby, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, Interior Perspective, 1925

Holabird and Roche

A work made of limestone.

Capital with Lions, c. 1125

French

An aerial perspective drawing of a settlement made up of consecutive L-shaped houses with courtyards and surrounding trees.

Settlement Units Density Studies, Aerial Perspective, c. 1943

Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer

An iron fragment from the façade of a building with ornate organic relief decoration. The top-right corner is missing.

Spandrel Panel from the Gage Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1898–99 (removed 1955)

Louis H. Sullivan

ABC Office Building, New York City, New York, Elevation, Plan, and Model View

ABC Office Building, New York City, New York, Elevation, Plan, and Model View, 1988

Bertrand Goldberg

A sepia-tones aerial plan drawing of a park with trees cut by roads and nonlinear paths, confined by less detailed gridded blocks.

Plan of Chicago, Plate 63, Plan of a Proposed Park, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of leaded glass window; clear, green, and opaque glass in lead cames; mounted in black wood frame with plexiglas shield.

Coonley, Avery, House: Leaded Glass Window, 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of graphite on strathmore paper.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 4, Fluent Geometry, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A colored perspective drawing of a populated airport concourse with black and white tile floors and a steel and glass arcade.

United Airlines Terminal: Interior Perspective View of Concourse, 1985

Murphy/Jahn Architects

Large painting of ancient arch ruins, statues, humans are small in comparison.

The Fountains, 1787–88

Hubert Robert

A work made of five layers of mahogany, fret sawn.

Schlesinger and Mayer Company Store: Section of a Screen from Third Floor Writing Room, 1899/1904

Louis H. Sullivan

An elevation drawing of a strikingly horizontal building with an almost entirely glass facade and passersby in the foreground.

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Library and Administration Building Proposal, c. 1944

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

An aerial drawing of a spiral-shaped house with exterior garden, depicted in color and surrounded by brown rock.

Eugene and Nancy Bavinger House, Norman, Oklahoma, Plan of Lower Level, 1950

Bruce Goff

A work made of oil on canvas.

Spring, 1923–24

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of painted plaster.

Tavern Club: Female Head, c. 1937

Lora Marx

A drawing of the front of a three-story building with arched windows, an arched doorway, and a flat roof. The space above the door reads "Stewart Bentley" with the numbers 114 and 112.

Stewart–Bentley Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Exterior Wall Section, 1872

Carter, Drake and Wight

A round, black architectural grille with a spiderweb-like pattern consisting of intricate radiating geometric details.

Circular Ventilator Grille from the Francis Apartments, Chicago, Illinois, 1895 (demolished 1971)

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of graphite on linen.

860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, First Floor Plan, 1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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