A work made of collage of cut gelatin silver print with opaque watercolor, translucent brown film, and printed translucent white film on light brown board.

Convertible Gun Crate, Perspective, 1943

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of graphite on paper.

Plate 119 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Sketch Plan of the Intersection of Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street, 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of marble.

Capital with Eagles, 1230/40

Italian

A work made of graphite on linen.

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive, Sub-Structure Details, 11/9/1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A work made of colored pencil and graphite on yellow tracing paper.

Little Village Academy, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation, 1994–1995

Ross Barney + Jankowski Architects

A stained glass window with a mosaic bird design in the center framed first by consecutive blue squares and then yellow triangles.

Window with Bird Design, c. 1925

Edgar Miller

A drawing from street level of a busy plaza, a multistory black glass building rising above it, flanked at the left by a light-colored building with many columns and at right by other city buildings.

Chicago Civic Center: Perspective View of Plaza, 1963

Chicago Civic Center Architects

A work made of graphite on yellow tracing paper with white and black paper collage mounted on backup sheet of yellow tracing paper.

Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist, Chicago, Illinois, Exterior Perspective, c. 1968

Harry Weese Associates

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Landing Place, 1788

Hubert Robert

A work made of mixed media model.

Mobile Penicillin Laboratory, Model, 1943

Bertrand Goldberg

A 3-D color design drawing with one house depicted in two perspectives, each level floating independently in black space to expose layout details.

Markow House, Prospect Heights, Illinois, Design Drawings, 1997–1998

Garofalo Architects

A work made of glass panel, sandblasted and finished with acid etching.

Diana Court Clerestory Window: Diana with Bow and Arrows, 1929

Edgar Miller

A work made of terra-cotta.

Exterior Column from the Schiller Building (aka Garrick Theater), 1891–92

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of graphite on paper.

McVickers Theater, Chicago, Illinois, Sketch, c. 1883–1891

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of limestone.

Lintel Support with Lion, 1125/50

Spanish

A stylized, yellow-toned lithograph of a housing development consisting of a series of houses situated amongst foliage and pastoral land.

Rock Crest/Rock Glen, Mason City, Iowa, Perspective, c. 1912

Walter Burley Griffin

A work made of colored pencil and graphite with opaque watercolor on tracing paper.

Crystal Chapel, Norman, Oklahoma, Interior Perspective, 1949

Bruce Goff

A drawing of the roof plan for a spiral-shaped home resembling a nautilus shell, with measurement notes.

Gene and Nancy Bavinger House, Roof Plan, Norman, Oklahoma, Working Drawing, 1950–1951

Bruce Goff

A work made of graphite on tracing paper.

Gene and Nancy Bavinger House, Structural Plan and Section Through Furnace Room, Norman, Oklahoma, Working Drawing, 1950–1951

Bruce Goff

A work made of wrought iron, bolted to wall-mounted frame.

Rookery Building, 209 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois: Grille from Interior Central Court, c. 1885/88 Removed during 1905–1907 renovation

Burnham and Root