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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

House for Nezam Amery, project [Teheran, Iran] (1958)

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: Amery, Nazam.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, textile.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 5.

Drawing Number and Description

5801.006     Perspective
5801.007     Perspective, early study
5801.015     Floor plans three levels
5801.023     Perspective

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) House for Nezam Amery #0006 an apprentice from 53/58. Geiger 02/03/98 (b) McCarter, Robert. Frank Lloyd Wright (London: Phaidon Press, 1997), p. 358.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Alofsin, Anthony. Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. [ISBN: 0-520-21116-2].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-519-2].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].
Sweeney, Robert L.. Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture. Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press. [ISBN: 0-262-19337-X].