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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, Stable, and Gardener's Cottage for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley [Riverside, Illinois] (1908)

Drawing: Tile frieze, used design, line drawing

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0803.007

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: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Ornament/Mosaic.

Notes and comments: (a) Line drawing without color but a good layout for the design. John W. Geiger 03/31/05.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 223] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, American Architecture (New York: Bramhall House, 1955).

Appears as a color illustration [page 165] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).