Collection Highlights: Architecture on Paper
Cooper Hewitt's collection includes a wide range of drawings related to architectural practice. Included among the examples gathered here are sketches, floorplans, cross sections, internal and external elevations, presentation drawings, projections, details, and perspectival views dating from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
- Drawing, First Studies, Villa Stein-de Monzie, Garches, France
- graphite on white paperboard, mounted on canvas.
- Museum purchase from James B. Ford and Peter Cooper Hewitt Estate Funds.
- 1936-60-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Print, Design for the Ten-Deck House
- mimeograph print, brush and blue watercolor on white paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1991-53-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Print, Design for a Professional School, Hagen, Westphalia, Germany
- photostat with hand additions.
- Gift of Walter Gropius.
- 1938-68-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
![Drawing, Siedlungstype [Housing Example (Façade Elevation with Upper and Lower Level Floor Plans)]](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/85263_0af487a3eac85fb8_n.jpg "Drawing, Siedlungstype [Housing Example (Façade Elevation with Upper and Lower Level Floor Plans)], ca. 1929")
- Drawing, Siedlungstype [Housing Example (Façade Elevation with Upper and...
- pen and dark gray ink, graphite, red pencil on graph paper.
- Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds.
- 2008-20-34
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Design for Living Room with Dining Area, 1933–39
- brush and gouache; graphite; collaged wood veneer, silver foil, embossed....
- Gift of Margarethe Fröhlich.
- 1997-109-13
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Elevation and Plan for the Ulrich Lange House, Krefeld, Germany, ca....
- graphite, pen and black ink on tan paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2017-13-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Design for Spiral Form (Hemicycle House), ca. 1950
- pen and ink, colored pencil on tracing paper.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-112
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Elevations of Mike Lyman's Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
- brush and gouache on illustration board.
- 1988-90-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Sketch of a room interior, for Uris Hotels, ca. 1955
- crayon, graphite on tissue.
- Gift of Henry Dreyfuss.
- 1972-88-391
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Design for an Interior, ca. 1950
- brush and gouache, wood laminate, pen and black ink, cellophane, metal foil....
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
- 1996-54-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Haus Heiligenstädterstr. (Floor Plan and Garden)
- pen and blue ink, graphite on graph paper.
- Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds.
- 2008-20-30
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Facade for Proposed Cottage for Kirk Wilkinson, Wellfleet, MA
- brush and black ink, crayons on paper.
- Gift of Serge Ivan Chermayeff.
- 1962-45-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Alternate Design for Side Elevation of Proposed First Lutheran...
- graphite, brush and black ink on tracing paper.
- Gift of Pietro Belluschi.
- 1962-35-12
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, NH: Sketch of Plan with Elevations
- graphite on yellow tracing paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Anonymous Donor, Architectural Research....
- 2012-22-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Loft Interior Showing Workspace, Gallery, Living Areas, Master...
- pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on heavy paper.
- Gift of Michael Christiano.
- 1977-93-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Texas Commerce Bank Tower, 1977
- graphite on white paper.
- Museum purchase through bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1985-63-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Matthews Street House, Berkeley, California, Perspective View at Dawn
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper.
- Gift of Thomas Gordon Smith.
- 1979-1-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Bauhaus
- pen and ink and graphite on paper.
- Gift of Saul Steinberg Foundation.
- 2020-13-11
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Preliminary Study, Fargo-Moorhead Cultural Center Bridge, South...
- color pencil, graphite on white wove paper.
- 1980-4-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, The Colonnade Condiminiums, Singapore: Isometric Elevation
- color pencil, graphite over diazo print on white wove paper.
- Museum purchase through bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1985-63-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Aerial Perspective of the Lake, the Arcades, the Viaduct, and the...
- pen and purple-blue ink, graphite on vellum.
- Gift of Kenneth Walker.
- 1991-146-27
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Design for a Private House, Morbio Superiore, Switzerland
- graphite on tracing paper.
- Museum purchase through bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1985-63-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Synaps Project, View of Hotel Tower, Tokyo
- graphite on white paper.
- 1988-52-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, House for a Movie Star
- graphite, green and blue wash, color pencil, pen and black ink, addition of....
- Museum purchase through bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
- 1985-63-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Theatre in Rimini, Piazza Malatesta: Elevations and Sections
- graphite and color pencil on vellum.
- 1988-52-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Design for Chiat/Day Building, Los Angeles, CA
- pen and black ink on paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2018-3-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Architectural Design
- lithograph, pastel, graphite on white paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1986-65-13
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Collage of Plans and Elevations, Cambridge Arcade Project, Zero...
- pen and black ink, color pencil over photostat cut out and laid down on white....
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1986-65-7
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, View of Arcade, Phase I, Plaza Guadalupe, San Antonio, TX
- pen and ink, color pencil, graphite on white paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1986-65-9
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Proposal for Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1986
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, watercolor on thick white wove paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Lucy Work Hewitt.
- 1993-115-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, New York University Dormitory, 33 Third Avenue, New York, NY
- pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on heavy cream wove paper .
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1986-65-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Municipal Office Building, Hartford, Connecticut
- graphite, color pencil on white paper.
- 1988-52-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Campus in Santa Monica Mountains, California: elevation study for...
- brush and oil, ink, pastel, graphite on mylar.
- 1988-52-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Galician Center of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain:...
- black ball-point on cream (loose-leaf) paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
- 2004-5-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Design for Museum Entrance Area, J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles
- graphite on tracing paper.
- Gift of Ana Meier.
- 2009-15-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 3 images of this object.
- Drawing, Eurodisney Corporate Head Quarters
- pen and black ink, color pencil on graph paper.
- Gift of Aldo Rossi/Studio di Architettura, New York.
- 1993-32-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
