Primary Building Material: MASONRY/Brick
House for Robert M. Lamp [Madison, Wisconsin] (1903)
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: Lamp, Robert M..
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.
Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential.
Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 6.
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.
Griffin, Walter Burley
Preliminary working drawings coordinator: Griffin, Walter Burley
Working drawings coordinator: Griffin, Walter Burley
Mechanical engineering: Griffin, Walter Burley
Construction supervision: Griffin, 4alter Burley
Notes And References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) J. Holzhueter in Wright in Madison, p. 18, credits Walter Burley Griffin with much of the design development of the Lamp house. Geiger 12/24/01 (1) Wright in Madison, p. 19.
Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.
This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2010, Vol. 21, No. 3. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].
Sprague, Paul E. (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin. [ISBN: 0-932900-22-4].