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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: MASONRY/Brick

House for Dr. Paul J. and Ida Trier [Des Moines, Iowa] (1956)

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: Trier, Dr. Paul J. and Ida.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 5.

Drawing Number and Description

5724.001     Perspective of Usonian Automatic
5724.002     Floor plan Usonian Automatic
5724.003     Elevations Usonian Automatic
5724.005     Floor plan as built brick and wood
5724.007     Floor plan
Construction supervision: Ottenheimer, John

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.

Notes And References

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