Dan Wheeler Architectural Drawings study collection, 1959-2004

The Daley Library does not own any rights to any of the materials in this collection, so cannot grant permissions for digitization.

Collection is open for research.

This collection was built by Professor Dan Wheeler, a faculty member in UIC’s School of Architecture since 1992, who is a practicing architect and a principal of the Chicago firm Wheeler Kearns Architects. Professor Wheeler solicited these drawing sets from a number of different architectural firms when he first obtained tenure and was asked to Chair the Building Science Program. The collection was originally housed in the former Art and Architecture Library in Douglas Hall. When that branch library closed in 2003, the collection was moved to the Reserve Reading Room on the first floor of the Daley Library. An inventory list (MS Excel) was drawn up by Sharon Silverman, formerly a reference librarian at Daley Library.

In early 2014, preparations for the remodeling of the Reserve Reading Room into the Circle Reading room required that the collection again be moved. Administrators in the School of Architecture were contacted, as well as Professor Wheeler, for their thoughts about it. They all agreed that the collection is a valuable source of historical and technical building information, and that the Daley Library is the natural place to keep it, since the School of Architecture does not have a library, nor any personnel to manage the collection.

The collection was moved from the former Reserve Reading Room to the 3rd floor center East on March 21, 2014, to become part of Daley Library Special Collections.

The study collection is comprised of series of drawing sets of important structures from prominent firms such as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Murphy/Jahn, and Krueck+Sexton.

• SubjectArchitecture.
• Geographic CoverageIllinois--Chicago.