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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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, Stable, and Gardener's Cottage for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley [Riverside, Illinois] (1908)

Drawing: Light fixture; plan elevation and section

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0803.117

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; ink.
Drawing measurements: 21 x 35"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Lighting.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 95, page 155] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).