Project Information
House for an Artist, project [Oak Park, Illinois] (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. 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: Unknown.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.
Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Studio/Residential.
Principal building materials: Not assigned.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 2.
Drawing Number and Description
Notes and References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) Hitchcock lists this as being for FLLW. The FLLWA list it as above, which I think is correct. Geiger 05/05/02.
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:
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
McCarter, Robert (editor). On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles. Hudson, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. [ISBN: 1-878271-26-1].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0790979667].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909). New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-486-24457-1].