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DESIGN EVALUATIONS

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Civic Center at Point Park for the Allegheny Conference on Development, scheme 1, project [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] (1949)

Drawing: Longitudinal section through aquarium

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4821.027

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 39x88"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis

Notes and comments: Both Howe and Besinger claim this drawing. Probably both worked on it. John W. Geiger 05/14/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 19] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 290] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 43c] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 7, page 89] in Menocal, Narcisso (editor), Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 379, page 198] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).