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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. Edwin H. Cheney [Oak Park, Illinois] (1903)

Drawing: Floor plan, early, with a square roof clearly shown.

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0401.012

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

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 54, page 46] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 9.12, page 245] in McCarter, Robert (editor), On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (Hudson, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 3-32, page 79] in Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna, Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).