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ROOF PATTERN TYPES

When seen from bird's eye view, intersecting roof lines covering a building form a geometrical pattern. John Geiger applied 8 categories of pattern type to 55 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Only commissions with an assigned roof pattern type appear in this search.

Project Information

Summer Lodge for Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Scudder, project [Desbarats, Ontario, Canada] (1904)

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: Scudder, J. A..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Cottage/cabin.

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, board and batten.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 1.

Drawing Number and Description

0409.001     Perspective from water
0409.002     First floor plan
0409.003     Two elevations
0409.004     Wall sections, elevation, details and cross sections

Roof type: Big Roof.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof pattern type: 0103 Rectangle

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify types of roof pattern from an aerial perspective found Frank Lloyd Wright projects.These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFPATTERNTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) Could have been precursor to Hardy #0506 and Stewart #0907. It has the virtue of simplicity of form under a single hipped roof. Geiger 02/08/9 (1) Working drawing .002 this date. Geiger 04/03/98.

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:

Hertzberg, Mark. Frank Lloyd Wright''s Hardy House. Petaluma, California: Pomegranate Communications, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-7649-3761-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].