Architectual art exhibition archive , Architech Gallery

Current Show ArchiTech Gallery will be showing selections from its collection until August 28th.

Past Shows
Two Centuries: An Architectural Evolution January 8 - extended through May 29, 2010 Design and presentation drawings spanning the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Three Golden Ages September 4 - December 19, 2009 Original design and presentation drawings and blueprints from all the major periods of Wright's long career

Marina City June 5 - August 29, 2009 Bertrand Goldberg's office materials for the design of Marina City

Future Perfect: Mid-Century Modern Design Drawings January 9 - May 30, 2009 Mid 20th Century Modernism's most flamboyant designers. Industrial and architectural drawings from post-war to post-moon landing.

Architectural Toys Friday, December 5 to Saturday, December 27, 2008 ArchiTech Gallery marks its Tenth Anniversary by celebrating the child in all of us. Architectural toys from the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Chicago's Carbide and Carbon Building: The Lost Blueprints September 5 to November 29, 2008 The rediscovered roll of plans, elevations and sections for an Art Deco masterpiece.

XIX: 19th Century Design Friday, April 4 to Saturday, August 30, 2008 Design drawings and engravings for buildings, pavilions, furniture and wallpaper for the most eclectic of all centuries.

Hedrich Blessing Interiors: Architectural Photography of the 1930s Friday, January 11, extended to Saturday, March 29, 2008 Art Deco interiors photographed by Ken Hedrich.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie House: The Wasmuth Portfolio September 7 - December 29, 2007 Wright's rare 1910 German lithographs from his first golden age.

Powerhouse: The Photographs of Darris Lee Harris April 6 - July 28 , 2007 A precisionist photographer's discoveries inside an abandoned power plant.

Elizabeth Ockwell and the Paris Opera House September 5 - March 31, 2007 The icon of 19th Century French architecture interpreted by a specialist in figure drawing and anatomy.

The Loop: Designs for a Vertical City September 8 - November 25, 2006 Early concepts, final design drawings and original blueprints and hectographs for Chicago's first Loop skyscrapers.

Secret Cities: Extraordinary Urban Photography April 14 - August 19, 2006 Unique, non-documentary visions of some of the world's great cities by ArchiTech's best contemporary photographers.

Dream Machines: The Inventions of R.G. Martelet January 6 - March 25 , 2006 Futuristic, mid-century renderings of wheeled and floating vehicles and household appliances by one of the cleverest designers at Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin: The Photographs of Pedro Guerrero September 16 - December 30, 2005 The private collection of vintage and period exhibition prints by Wright's greatest photographer.

Designed for Living: The Modern Interior June 17 - August 27, 2005 Design drawings and renderings for furniture, carpets, murals and lighting for Prairie, Art Deco, Streamline and Mid-Century modern interiors.

Lying on Paper: Architectural Renderings of the 20th Century March 19 - June 4, 2005 Presentation renderings of the 20th Century from Beaux-Arts excess to streamline modern.

Bertrand Goldberg - The Shape of Space January 14 - March 12, 2005 Original blueprints for Chicago's famous Marina City as well as presentation renderings for River City and other projects by one of modernism's unique creators.

Rome and the Classical Legacy September 10 - December 18, 2004 Piranesi's 18th century etchings, classical architectural studies from 1910 and contemporary watercolors of baroque and ancient Rome by Gilbert Gorski and Elizabeth Ockwell.

Big City - A Chicago Album April 23 - August 21, 2004 Paintings, watercolors, etchings and vintage and contemporary photographs expressing the most American of big cities.

The World of Henry Glass - Mid-Century Modernist January 9 - April 10, 2004 Retrospective of one of America's most innovative and influential industrial designers. Original design drawings and presentation renderings by a master of the medium.

Magnifique! French Architecture and Decor September 12 - November 27, 2003 Original design drawings from the Nineteenth Century Parisian firm of Viollet-le-Duc. Contemporary drawings and photographs of French architectural magnificence

Art of Hedrich Blessing June 20 - August 30, 2003 Hedrich Blessing's greatest photographs in one-of-a-kind museum prints. Exhibition and period proofs from the world's largest architectural photography company.

Beautiful Mathematics: 20th Century Architectural Elevations May 16 - June 14, 2003 Architectural elevations of the 20th Century. Beaux-Arts façades to modernist exercises in geometry.

Madeleine Isom: City April 4 - June 14, 2003 ArchiTech's first solo exhibition by a contemporary artist. Madeleine Isom's abstract photographs of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Paris.

Daniel Burnham's Chicago January 3 - March 23, 2003 Original design drawings and blueprints by Burnham and Root for 19th and early 20th Century landmarks. 1890s engravings of the Loop and The WorldÕs Columbian Exposition and vintage photographs by Richard Nickel of the icons of Burnham's career.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School September 20 - December 28, 2002 Original design drawings of furniture, carpets and art glass windows by the leading figures of the Prairie School. Frank Lloyd Wright's Wasmuth Portfolio and vintage photographs of his greatest early buildings.

Retrospective/New Perspective June 7 through August 2002 Highlights of ArchiTech's past three years' exhibitions celebrating architectural and industrial design drawings from three centuries.

Ruins: Architecture of Time March 22 - June 1 18th Century etchings, pre-Victorian engravings and contemporary photographs and drawings of magnificent remains of the ancient and modern world.

Hedrich Blessing: Painting With Light January 4 - March 16, 2002 ArchiTech's first exhibition of the original proof prints and portfolios from the world's foremost architectural photography company. The art of Hedrich Blessing is now represented exclusively by ArchiTech Gallery.

Alfonso Iannelli: Driven to Design September 14 - December 29, 2001 A career survey of illustrations, sculptures, architectural and product designs from the personal archives of America's great modernist commercial designer. From his Orpheum vaudeville posters to Midway Gardens Sprites; exhibitions at Chicago's Art Institute to Pavilions for A Century of Progress.

Drawn From the Masters April 27 - July 28, 2001 Original prints and drawings by legendary architects from Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan to Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff. Included are vintage photographs of Prairie masterpieces by Wright's first photographers, Henry Fuermann and Sons.

Picturing Wright previews June 15, 2001 Original vintage photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's earliest work by Henry Fuermann & Sons.

The Perfect Chair February 16 - April 21, 2001 The seven decade career of Henry P. Glass is honored with a major retrospective of his design drawings. Also historical European and American designs from the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries are showcased along with contemporary fantasy designs by contemporary Chicago architects.

Foto Chicago: Picturing the City That Works December 1, 2000- February 3, 2001 A century of photographs of America's most photogenic city. Works by Aaron Siskind, Richard Nickel and A. George Miller are combined with contemporary exhibition prints by today's young artists.

Deco Chicago September 15 - November 25, 2000 Original design drawings and blueprints of Chicago's most flamboyant Deco tower, the Carbide and Carbon Building, also including Midwest designs for fountains, monuments and public buildings by Iannelli Studios.

The Prints of Egypt June 30 - September 2, 2000 Napoleon's engravings, Description de l'Egypte and contemporary photographs of Luxor and Cairo by Bernice Williams and John Kimmich-Javier.

Master Plans: The Architectural Plan as Abstract Art April 21 - June 24, 2000 Drawings by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham and others for Chicago's Rookery, Carbide and Carbon and A Century of Progress pavilions as well as the contemporary works of Michael Hopkins that bring the plan into a fine art format.

The Form of Function: Art of the Machine February 11 - April 15, 2000 Consumer product and industrial designs by Alfonso Iannelli, Raymond Loewy, Sears designers and vintage work by commercial and street photographers.

The Graven Image: Architectural Etchings and Engravings December 3, 1999 - February 5, 2000 Intaglio prints from the last 250 years featuring the 18th Century etchings of Rome by Piranesi.

Frank Lloyd Wright:Architect of the Century October 1 - November 27, 1999 The 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio lithographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, the only monograph by America's greatest architect.

Paris: Building Splendor July 16 - September 18, 1999 Original drawings from the 19th Century Paris firm of Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and contemporary watercolors by Elizabeth Ockwell.

Obsessed Architects: Abel Faidy to Bruce Goff May 21 - July 10, 1999 The fantasies of Goff, Gaudi and Faidy; Villa Dionysos and the Golden Section.

The Room: Inside Architecture March 26 - May 15, 1999 Interior appointments and furnishings from 19th Century European to 1930's American designs. Also contemporary photographs of the Stockholm Royal Palace and Spain's Alhambra by John Kimmich-Javier

Dream Pavilions: A Century of Progress Jan 29 - Mar 9, 1999 The unbuilt pavilions of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair and vintage photographs of A Century of Progress.