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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

"A Fireproof House for $5,000" for the Ladies Home Journal, project [] (1906)

Drawing: Perspective of house originally designed for Ladies Home Journal (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0614.??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, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 128] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate XIV(a)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909) (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate XIV(a)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Buildings, Plans and Designs (New York: Horizon Press, 1963). Note by John Geiger: Reprint of Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910/1911.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 128] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).