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Frank Lloyd Wright commissions

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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

Project Information

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.

Name of client: Wright, Frank Lloyd.

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
3803.027     Cross section
3803.049     Grading plan
3803.100     Pavilion elevation
3803.103     Pavilion cross section
3803.108     Floor plan and two sections
3803.111     Cross section of theater
3803.128     Elevation of dance behemoth
3803.136     Floor plan
3803.158     Elevation for Talieein sign

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.