Abel Faidy

Abel Faidy

Bruce Goff

Alfonso Iannelli

May 21, 1999 – July 10, 1999

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.

The show also features some of Goff’s conceptual and presentation drawings. From austere moderne cottages to outlandish structural spiderwebs, the designs show an artist who would never be subdued by practicality.

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