Project Information
Automobile Objective and Planetarium for Gordon Strong, project [Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland] (1924)
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: Strong, Gordon.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.
Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Recreation.
Principal building materials: Not assigned.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 44.
Drawing Number and Description
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Notes and References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) McCarter, Robert. Frank Lloyd Wright (London: Phaidon Press, 1997), p. 350; drawing .052 signed FLW 1923-24 (b) Karfik, JTF #11, p. 10 talks about working on this job, which is 5 years after the 1923 design date. Geier 01/10/05.
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:
Cleary, Richard. Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright. Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press. [ISBN: 0-88039-036-0].
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
De Long, David G.. Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8109-3981-9].
Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 3. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1715-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8108-1773-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1935 (Volume 5). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-516-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1917-1932 (Volume 10). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-521-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-8478-3174-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs. Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1235-2].
Protetch, Max. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987. New York: Max Protech Gallery.
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1546-3].