Building the Business of Architecture: The Burnham Brothers and Chicago in the Golden Twenties

Exhibit :

Architectural drawings ranging from façade drawings to engineering plans are on display. The exhibition traces the inside view of the history of Chicago’s iconic skyline through architectural drawings, photographs and archival documents.

Also on display are: 19 architectural drawings by the Burnham brothers for the Engineers’ Building (1928); a presentation drawing by the Burnham brothers of the façade of the Carbide and Carbon Building; a copy of Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago; prints and drawings of the Chicago River area from the turn of the century through the 1920s; photographs of the architects, their studios and buildings in progress; architectural fragments, including terra cotta façade; and 1920s.

The DePaul Art Museum is open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.