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Frank Lloyd Wright Commission Titles

The information presented here exhibits the extent to which John Geiger considered many points of reference related to a given Frank Lloyd Wright project. Aside from basic information such as title, location, and project date, Geiger extended his interests to types of floor and roof plans, types of construction and building purpose, and where possible the dates of the various stages of development in the design process and construction. Geiger often included citations for bibliographic references as sources for the recorded information in an elaborate but unevenly developed series of attributions.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Urban Building Plan, "Skyscraper Regulation", project [Chicago, Illinois] (1926)

Drawing: Elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2603.002

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Prelimiinary.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper with black ink.
Drawing measurements: 20 3/8 x 30 1/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Source of attribution: Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings exhibition at MOMA in New York, 1962. See Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Date Range
Date created: circa 1926.
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 161] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 206, page 219] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 148] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 61] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 15b] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).