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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Plan for Greater Baghdad and Crescent Opera House, project [Baghdad, Iraq] (1957)

Drawing: Floor plan and parking ramps

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5733.028

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 235] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 160] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, When Democracy Builds (Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1945).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 620, page 307] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 160] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).