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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. Joseph Husser [Chicago, Illinois] ()

Drawing: Analytique drawing; floor plans, elevations, perspective, details

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9901.??2

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.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) "House for Mrs. Helen Husser." Architectural Review 7, No. 6 (June 1900), pl. XXXVII. (b) McCarter calls this type of drawing an "Analytique" after the Beaus Arts. Primer, #0138, p. 44.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 2.52, page 45] 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 68, page 114] in Sloan, Julie L., Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Rizzoli, 2001).