Burnham and Root, 1873-1891 Half Inch Scale Detail, Elevation and Section, of the Ninth Through Twelfth Floors for the Monadnock Block, Chicago, ca. September 1885, pen and red and black ink, pink, yellow and red wash and graphite on stiff wove paper, 90,8 x 49,9 cm, DR1986:0767:005, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Felice Beato, 1834-ca. 1907 The Motee Mahal, Lucknow, India, between 1858 and 1860, albumen silver print, Identical to The Motee Mahal, 1st Attack Sir Colin Nov. 57, unumbered plate in Lucknow (n.d.), unpublished views of Lucknow., PH1979:0449:003. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Bedford Lemere & Co. Display of casts from Chartres Cathedral at the Royal Architecture Museum, London. 1872-73. Albumen silver print, 45.6 x 35.5 cm. CCA Collection. PH1981:1066:010

August Sander, 1876-1964 Destroyed buildings on Hohestrasse, Cologne, Germany, 1945, gelatin silver print, 29 x 22.9 cm, PH1982:0018.01:013, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

G. Koppmann & Co. established in 1866 Houses in the Dutch Community of Rödingsmarkt, 1883, albumen silver print, 37,9 x 27 cm, PH1982:0567, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Édouard Baldus, 1813-1889 View of Houses along the Rhone River, Vienne, ca. 1861, albumen silver print, 31,3 x 41,8 cm, PH1981:0816:012, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Natale Bonifacio, engraver, 1538- 1592 after Giovanni Guerra, draughtsman, 1535-1618 and Domenico Fontana, architect, 1543-1607 Plan, Elevation, and Perspective of the Castello Used in the Transportation of the Vatican Obelisk; and Views of the Original and Final Location of the Obelisk, March 1586, engraving on laid paper, 52,3 x 119,1 cm (three sheets joined), DR1987:0026, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Bodo Rasch, draughtsman and architect, 1903-1995 Suspended Dwellings, 1927, pen and black ink and graphite on tracing paper, 99 x 118,2 cm, DR1984:1562, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Eleazar Markovich Lissitzky. Axonometric Projection of the Proun Room Installed at the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition. 1923. Lithograph on wove paper, 44.3 x 55.9 cm. CCA Collection. DR1984:1581 © Estate of El Lissitzky / SODRAC (2011)

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, draughtsman and architect, 1775-1855 Perspective of the Entrance Hall and Staircase for Waterloo Palace, 1818, pen and grey ink with grey, blue, pink and brown washes, on wove paper, 74,6 x 88,3 cm, DR1980:0050, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Louis I. Kahn, draughtsman and architect, 1901 – 1974 Advanced Perspective Sketches of the Ground Floor Courtyard, Façade, and Reception Rooms of the Italian Biennale Pavilion, ca. 1968, black conté crayon with coloured oil pastel on tracing paper, 57 x 64 cm, DR1982:0010, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Hannes Meyer, Hans Wittwer. Competition Design for the League of Nations Building in Geneva. 1926-1927. Pen and ink on card laid down on board, 141 x 102.1 cm. CCA Collection. DR1984:0705

Tail end of LZ 126 leaving the hangar, 1923. Unknown photographer. Unnumbered plate from LZ 126 20 Original photographien vom Amerika Luftschiff (Friedrichshafen am Bodensee: Luftschiffbau Zeppelin G.M.b.H., 1925). PH1985:0234:018

Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 1921- The New Palace and Lawn Seen from the Middle Shoin, Katsura Palace, Japan, 1953, gelatin silver print, 16,6 x 23,7 cm, PH1986:0205, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, © Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Philip Phillips North side of cantilever, Forth Bridge, Scotland, Sir John Fowler, engineer and Sir Benjamin Baker, engineer, 14 September 1886, gelatin silver print, 42,4 x 57,8 cm, Unumbered plate in Forth Bridge (n.d.)., PH1978:0229:069, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal