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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

House for Rose Pauson [Phoenix, Arizona] (1938)

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: Pauson, Rose.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Shiprock.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Desert and lapped boards.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 18.

Drawing Number and Description

4011.006     Elevation form street
4011.049     Longitudinal cross sections
4011.055     Elevations

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
Thomson, James
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Working drawings coordinator: Mosher, Robert Keel
Construction supervision: Mosher, Robert Keel

Roof type: Flat.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes And References

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