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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

Administration Building for the Larkin Company [Buffalo, New York] (1903)

Drawing: Seneca Street elevation, first set of preliminaries

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0403.??8

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 9, page 22] in Quinan, Jack, Frank Lloyd Wright's: Larkin Building Myth and Fact (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1987).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 96B, page 148] in Manson, Grant Carpenter, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age (Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1958).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 96B, page 128] in Manson, Grant Carpenter, Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold and Company, 1958).