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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CLIENT NAMES

Frank Lloyd Wright had 685 known clients.  A given client may have commissioned one or several projects from the architect. This search approach sorts Wright projects alphabetically by the last name of the client, and provides links to project information and all related project drawings detailed in the database. Wright also produced a great deal of work for his own purposes, essentially as his own client. References to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois, Taliesin estate at Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, as well as other more temporary residences and studios (e.g., Chicago, New York, Italy, Tokyo, Japan) will be found indexed under his own name.

Project Information

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

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.??2     Floor plan of entire camp proabably for Hitchcock
3803.001     Plan and elevation of water tower cap
3803.002     Theater at rear of office, section Z-Z
3803.003     Aerial perspective of Taliesin west
3803.004     Floor plan and Section for Observatory above Theatre North of Loggia
3803.005     Floor plan of "cove" and family quarters
3803.006     Floor plan of office and surrounding approaches
3803.008     Elevation from Garden Room looking east
3803.015     Plan and elevation of bell tower at kitchen
3803.020     Elevation west end of office
3803.026     Elevation of end of drafting room
3803.027     Cross section
3803.029     Plan of wood entrance feature
3803.032     Elevations of family quarters
3803.036     Cross seection of drafting room, early study
3803.037     Floor plan of family quarters probably about 1948
3803.043     Plan and elevations of plywood wing chair and hexagonal table
3803.045     Elevation, section and details of drafting room and vault
3803.047     Section of garden/living room
3803.049     Grading plan
3803.059     Elevation and plan of sun parasol and chair
3803.089     Elevation of water tower''cap''
3803.089     Light tower and section of low side of the drafting room
3803.097     Longitudinal section of Dance Pavilion
3803.100     Pavilion elevation
3803.103     Pavilion cross section
3803.106     Cros section of dance behemoth
3803.108     Floor plan of theater and two cross ections
3803.108     Theater at rear of office, floor plan and sections
3803.108     Floor plan and two sections
3803.111     Cross section of theater
3803.115     Cross section and elevation of dance behemoth
3803.117     Floor plan and elevation of dance behemoth
3803.121     Cross seection of dance behemoth
3803.128     Elevation of dance behemoth
3803.135     Ground floor plan, early but not original
3803.136     Floor plan
3803.137     Floor plan of entire camp; early very sketchy plan
3803.142     Plan and elevation sun pparasol and chair, #2
3803.148     Plan and details of water tower''cap''
3803.149     Cross section at lower side of drafting room
3803.158     Elevation for Talieein sign
3803.168     Floor plan, complete but early
3803.169     Flap detail for Guest Deck, Taliesin West

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.