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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. Frank Lloyd Wright [Oak Park, Illinois] (1899)

Drawing: First and second floor plans

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 8901.??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: Working Drawings/Preliminary.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 12] 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 12] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 2.13, page 27] in McCarter, Robert (editor), On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles McCormack, Archie MacKenzie, and Robert McCarthy (Hudson, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991). Note by John Geiger: First floor plan only.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5, page 61] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).