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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

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

Drawing: House as published in Ladies Home Journal April 1907

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0614.??4

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 color illustration [page 410] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 178] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 12] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2006, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2006).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 6] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2008, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2007).

Appears as a color illustration [page 320] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).