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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 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright [Oak Park, Illinois] (1899)

Drawing: Plan of decorative ceiling grille in dining room

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 8901.001

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: Working Drawings/Preliminary.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; on opaque cream-colored paper. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 9 x 6"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 287] 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 155] 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 1, page 1] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).