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, The Vertical House
- graphite on white paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Cortland Field Bishop, George A. Hearn,....
- 1995-46-2
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle University, Seattle, WA: Exterior...
- brush and watercolor, graphite on heavy paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 2001-15-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA, West...
- brush and watercolor on heavy white paper.
- Gift of Rafael Viñoly.
- 2010-17-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Concept Sketches, Butterfly House, Auburn, AL, 1997
- pen and black ink on heavy cream paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2001-5-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Collage Perspective, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City,...
- photo-offset and photo-collage, white and blue crayon on white paper.
- Gift of Tod Williams Billie Tsien.
- 2001-18-5
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Panel Division Study for Facade, Museum of American Folk Art, New...
- pen and black and red ink, brush and white gouache, graphite on tracing paper.
- Gift of Tod Williams Billie Tsien.
- 2001-18-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, New York: Perspective View with Fossil...
- charcoal, photographic collage on vellum.
- Gift of Weiss/Manfredi Architects.
- 2000-67-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA: Sketch of Interior Glass Reflecting...
- ink and pastel on paper.
- Gift of Antoine Predock.
- 2016-30-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Aqua Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Study Exploring Chromatic...
- graphite, color pencil on white paper.
- Gift of Studio Gang Architects.
- 2014-4-4
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Chicken Point Cabin, Hayden Lake, ID: West and South Elevations,...
- graphite on tracing paper.
- Gift of Tom Kundig.
- 2010-10-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- Drawing, Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design...
- watercolor and charcoal on white wove paper; verso: black ink and charcoal.
- Gift of Walter Hood.
- 2020-11-3
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
- Drawing, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
- print in black ink on white wove paper with annotations in highlighter and....
- Gift of Michael Van Valkenburgh.
- 2018-13-1
- This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
