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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

Memorial Chapel For Mrs. W. H. Pettit [Belvedere, Illinois] (1906)

Drawing: Perspective from the front

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0619.002

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) See note on .001. John W. Geiger 11/11/00

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 62, page 85] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Note by John Geiger: Entire drawing; 2 perspectives and floor plan

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 477, page 256] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987). Note by John Geiger: Photostat of upper third of entire drawing/plan and another perspect