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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 for Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cheney [Oak Park, Illinois] (1903)

Drawing: Leaded glass windows details

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0401.006

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.
Drawing measurements: 41 x 31"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Leaded Glass/Windows.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 151, page 161] in Sloan, Julie L., Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Rizzoli, 2001).