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John Geiger applied a rating system to 714 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions using a numerical range of 10 (highest importance) to 2 (lowest importance), stepped in increments of .5, to express his view of the importance of the designs. Only projects with an evaluation number appear in this search.

Project Information

Kindergarten School at Olive Hill for Aline Barnsdall, "The Little Dipper", project [Los Angeles, California] (1923)

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.

Name of client: Barnsdall, Aline.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: The Little Dipper.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Playhouse/children.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, textile.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 25.

Drawing Number and Description

2301.??1     Floor plan, different from .004
2301.??2     Elevations
2301.??3     Perspective plan
2301.??4     Floor plan on 16" grid
2301.001     Floor plan, early
2301.002     Elevation study very early with notes by Wright
2301.003     Floor plan on 16" grid; circle inscribed in a square
2301.004     Floor plan at main level and clerestory in two drawings
2301.006     Perspective study, final design
2301.007     Floor plan
2301.008     Aerial perspective from fireplace side
2301.009     Elevation
2301.010     Cross section
2301.011     Longitudinal sction through fireplace and bowl
2301.014     Block A
2301.015     Block C
2301.016     Block F
2301.018     Block D
2301.019     Block B
2301.020     Block E
2301.021     Elevation, study but approaching the final design
2301.024     Perspective, early, printed in reverse?; work by Wright
2301.025     Elevations, very early
2301.025     Elevation of the building and the site showing the approach
2301.028     Concept drawing by Wright

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.