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John Geiger categorized 650 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions with 39 different types of construction. This search shows only Wright projects having a building materials assignment.

Primary Building Material: CONCRETE/Desert and lapped boards

Winter Residence for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin West" [Scottsdale, Arizona] (undated)

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: Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Taliesin West.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Personal, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Desert and lapped boards.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 45.

Drawing Number and Description

3803.??1     Site and floor plan
3803.027     Cross section
3803.049     Grading plan
3803.100     Pavilion elevation
3803.103     Pavilion cross section
3803.108     Floor plan and two sections
3803.111     Cross section of theater
3803.128     Elevation of dance behemoth
3803.136     Floor plan
3803.158     Elevation for Talieein sign

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.

Howe, John
Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.