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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Lake Mendota Boathouse [Madison, Wisconsin] (1893)

Drawing: Floor plan; half plan of lower and upper levels.

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9304.001

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: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Reprographic print, blueline; black wash ink.
Drawing measurements: 23 3/4 x 11 1/8"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: (?) Pinnell, Partrick. "Academic Tradition and The Individual Talent: Similarity and Diffrence in Wright's Formation" in On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (London: Phaidon, 2005) p. 34.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 3.3, page 31] in Sprague, Paul E. (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 15, page 116] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 88, page 48] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).