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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


Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Elevation; column detail complete on Secular but not on Temple.

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.004

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: 41" x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: (a) "Inscribed at lower right; Grammar of the temple--Secular Section designed to match Temple section (some problem) FLLW." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) (b) For Barry Byrne attribution see Siry, p. 1

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 86, page 117] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Note by John Geiger: Siry, p. 118

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 31] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 163] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).