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Dream Pavilions: A Century of Progress
The unbuilt pavilions of Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair and vintage photographs of A Century of Progress.
Original exhibition: January 29, 1999 to March 9, 1999
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The Room: Inside Architecture
Interior appointments and furnishings from 19th Century European to 1930s American designs. Also, contemporary photographs of the Stockholm Royal Palace and Spain’s Alhambra by John Kimmich-Javier
Original exhibition: March 26, 1999 to May 15, 1999
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Obsessed Architects: Abel Faidy to Bruce Goff
The fantasies of Goff, Gaudi, and Faidy; Villa Dionysos; and the Golden Section.
Original exhibition: May 21, 1999 to July 10, 1999
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Paris: Building Splendor
Original drawings from the 19th Century Paris firm of Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and contemporary watercolors by Elizabeth Ockwell.
Original exhibition: July 16, 1999 to September 18, 1999
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect of the Century
The 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio lithographs of Frank Lloyd Wright, the only monograph by America’s greatest architect.
Original exhibition: October 1, 1999 to November 27, 1999
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The Graven Image: Architectural Etchings and Engravings
Intaglio prints from the last 250 years featuring the 18th Century etchings of Rome by Piranesi.
Original exhibition: December 3, 1999 to February 5, 1999
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The Form of Function: Art of the Machine
Consumer product and industrial designs by Alfonso Iannelli, Raymond Loewy, Sears designers, and vintage work by commercial and street photographers.
Original exhibition: February 11, 2000 to April 15, 2000
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Master Plans: The Architectural Plan as Abstract Art
Drawings by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, and others for Chicago’s Rookery, Carbide & 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.
Original exhibition: April 21, 2000 to June 24, 2000
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The Prints of Egypt
Napoleon’s engravings, Description de l’Egypte, and contemporary photographs of Luxor and Cairo by Bernice Williams and John Kimmich-Javier.
Original exhibition: June 30, 2000 to September 2, 2000
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Deco Chicago
Original design drawings and blueprints of Chicago’s most flamboyant Deco tower, the Carbide and Carbon Building, including Midwest designs for fountains, monuments, and public buildings by Iannelli Studios.
Original exhibition: September 15, 2000 to November 25, 2000
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Foto Chicago: Picturing the City That Works
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.
Original exhibition: December 1, 2000 to February 3, 2001
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The Perfect Chair
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 19th and 20th Centuries are showcased along with contemporary fantasy designs by contemporary Chicago architects.
Original exhibition: February 16, 2001 to April 21, 2001
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Drawn from the Masters
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 & Sons.
Original exhibition: April 27, 2001 to June 28, 2001
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Picturing Wright
Original vintage photographs, by Henry Fuermann & Sons, of Frank Lloyd Wright’s earliest work.
Original exhibition: June 15, 2001 to September 8, 2001
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Alfonso Iannelli: Driven to Design
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.
Original exhibition: September 14, 2001 to December 29, 2001
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Hedrich Blessing: Painting With Light
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 represented exclusively by ArchiTech Gallery.
Original exhibition: January 4, 2002 to March 16, 2002
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Ruins: Architecture of Time
18th Century etchings, pre-Victorian engravings, and contemporary photographs and drawings of magnificent remains of the ancient and modern world.
Original exhibition: March 22, 2002 to June 1, 2002
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Retrospective/New Perspective
Highlights of ArchiTech’s past three years of exhibitions, celebrating architectural and industrial design drawings from three centuries.
Original exhibition: June 7, 2002 to August 31, 2002
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
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.
Original exhibition: September 20, 2002 to December 28, 2002
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Daniel Burnham’s Chicago
Original design drawings and blueprints by Burnham and Root for 19th and early 20th Century landmarks. 1890s engravings of the Loop and World’s Columbian Exposition and vintage photographs by Richard Nickel of the icons of Burnham’s career.
Original exhibition: January 3, 2003 to March 23, 2003
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Madeleine Isom: City
ArchiTech’s first solo exhibition by a contemporary artist. Madeleine Isom’s abstract photographs of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Paris.
Original exhibition: April 4, 2003 to June 14, 2003
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Beautiful Mathematics: 20th Century Architectural Elevations
Architectural elevations of the 20th Century. Beaux-Arts façades to modernist exercises in geometry.
Original exhibition: May 16, 2003 to June 14, 2003
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