Louis H. Sullivan
To Geo C Nimmons
Foliated motif sketch
Graphite on tissue, 1918
7 3/4 x 6 inches

E.E. Viollet-le-Duc
Detail of Lausanne Cathedral
Exhibited Vienna Exposition 1872-73
Pen and ink with colored wash on pink toned paper
26 x 24 inches
Circa 1872

April 27, 2001 – June 28, 2001

For Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Daniel Burnham, the drafting board was an artist’s easel. Their greatest drawings led to some of the world’s most extraordinary buildings. Scotland’s Mackintosh competed with Europe’s finest architects in designing the ultimate House for an Art Lover in 1901. Sinuous graphite sketches by Sullivan led to organic bronze motifs that adorned many of his 19th Century buildings.

Wright’s landmark Wasmuth Portfolio, published in 1910 Berlin, was his response to Japanese woodblock prints. And Burnham started sketching dreamlike pastels of the lakefront 13 years before his Chicago Plan of 1909.

For the first time, ArchiTech Gallery has assembled rare original prints and drawings by these and other master architects, including Mies van der Rohe, Viollet-le-Duc, and Bruce Goff. This exhibition, of special interest to collectors of important architectural design, opens at ArchiTech on Friday, April 27th.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Elevations to House for an Art Lover Lithograph, 1901 16 x 20 inches

Louis Sullivan Canvas stencil for Stock Exchange, 1894 24 x 54 inches