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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

House for Susan Lawrence Dana [Springfield, Illinois] (1902)

Drawing: Perspective sketch of gallery

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9905.002

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, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: 19" x 13"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: (a) "Inscribed at bottom right: 'Sketch for Dana Studio 1900 FLLW.'" Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). (b) Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962) lis

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 11] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 207] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 40, page 34] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).