Obsessed Architects: Abel Faidy to Bruce Goff

The fantasies of Goff, Gaudi and Faidy; Villa Dionysos and the Golden Section.

Obsession can transform a rational draftsman into an expressionistic dreamer. The resulting designs provoke contempt, even outrage, but rarely indifference

On May 21st, ArchiTech begins an exhibition and sale of drawings of Chicago's Abel Faidy (1894-1965) and the nomadic Bruce Goff (1904-1982), a one-time Wright admirer.

Highlights include Faidy's original 1959 designs for Villa Dionysos and Estate, a dazzling North Shore embassy for European socialites. It was Faidy's modernist vision of the ancient world's Golden Section.

Also included are the enormous drawings of George Aghassian, a former cabin boy whose obsessions with the skyscraper constitute architectural folk art.