Alternative placename: "Usonian"
Sixty Years of Living Architecture, Pavilion and Usonian House [New York, New York] (1953)
Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.
Name of client: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: Usonian.
Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.
Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Exhibition pavilion.
Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, plywood.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 19.
Drawing Number and Description
Individuals recorded as contributing to project:
Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.
Geiger, John
Howe, John
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Specifications writer: Irons, Clay
Plan type: NYUson#5314.
Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of floor plans found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects to categorize types of roof structure. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [
PLANTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.
Project Drawing Date Range
Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.
Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: June 3, 1953.
Working drawings date August 15, 1953.
Construction ended: 10/23/1953.
Notes And References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.