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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 William H. Winslow [River Forest, Illinois] (1894)

Drawing: Perspective of stable

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9305.012

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: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; sepia ink; brown ink; "...white paper mounted to Linen." Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1), fig. 5.
Drawing measurements: 12 x 5"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a color illustration [page 197] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).