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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

Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Auditorium, first balcony 1/2 level up and Unity House balcony cl

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.012

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/Developmental.
Sheet Number: 3
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 82, page 112] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Appears as a color illustration [page 13] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 227, page 129] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 110] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).