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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. Isadore Heller [Chicago, Illinois] (1896)

Drawing: Perspective from entrance side of house

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9606.005

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: Wolf, Erving and Joyce.
Drawing Type: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; brown ink; sepia ink.
Drawing measurements: 20 x 9"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 30, page 125] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 32] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).