James R. Thompson Center
Helmut Jahn
Chicago, USA
41°53′07″N 87°37′56″W
1985
Johnson Wax Building, Frank Lloyd Wright
Johnson Wax Building
Frank Lloyd Wright
Racine, WI, USA
42°42′49″N 87°47′27″W
1939
Willow Run Airport, Minoru Yamasaki
Willow Run Passenger Terminal
Minoru Yamasaki
Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
42°14′17″N 83°31′50″W
1957
Paul Laffoley’s Cosmological Cartography
Paul Laffoley was an artist known for his colorful paintings mixing science and knowledge systems. His complex compositions explore different concepts and multiply questions about the universe, its origin and its functioning.
Emma Willard, Chronographer and American history
Emma Willard was an American educator who created an innovative system of historical representation: the chronographer. This system of graphic representation made it possible to represent historical information in a geographical and chronological context, and more broadly, to map time.
If We Enter a World War and Lose, a 1937 Map
This hypothetical map illustrated by Howard Burke is deliberately provocative in its violent depiction of the end of the United States, two years before the Second World War. It represents a bleak future for the United States : if it were to lose the war that was about to begin, its territory would be divided among the victors.