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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: Interior perspective from pulpit

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.021

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Mahony, Marion

Notes and comments: (a) This early version shown a central single skylight and plastered corner columns with capitals. John W. Geiger 02/08/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 80, page 106] 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 [Figure or plate 238, page 141] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).