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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

Summer Cottage for Walter Gertz [Whitehall, Michigan] (1902)

Drawing: Floor plan for (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0203.??1

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Illustration board with pastel.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 93] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgeführte Bauten (Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G., 1911).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 93] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Early Work by Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Bramhall House, 1911). Note by John Geiger: 1982 reissue of Ausgeführte Bauten (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911)