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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

Summerhouse for Edward C. Waller, scheme 2 [Charlevoix, Michigan] (1903)

Drawing: Perspective from lake (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910) and Roberts house

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0310.??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: Reprographic print, blueline.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 622, page 308] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a color illustration [page 16] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 12, page 86] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 165] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).