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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

ROOF TYPES

Architects often explore the same organizational ideas for spatial relationships in floor plans over a variety of individual projects. John Geiger developed a classification system that applied 49 categories of floor plan to 174 Wright commissons that in his estimation reflected such design continuities. Only commissions with an assigned floor plan type appear in this search.

Project Information

Yahara River Boathouse, project [Madison, Wisconsin] (1905)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

Name of client: Beye, Cudworth.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: CIVIC/Boathouse.

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 13.

Drawing Number and Description

0211.??1     Half ground floor and half second floor plan
0211.??2     Perspeective (not .003)
0211.??3     Two perpsectives and half floor plan for ABEF
0211.001     Complete upper floor plan and perspective from left end
0211.001     Pespective of left and full second floor plan. See note below
0211.002     Elevation from river
0211.003     Perspective showing the pilings under the center portion of the
0211.004     Perspective of left end
0211.005     Perspective from front left with half and half plan. (fuzzy)
0211.006     Perspective rendered in black and white with half and half plan
0211.007     Perspective from river and half plans of first and second floors
0211.016     Perspective from the river and perspective left and plan (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0211.016     Two perspectives and partial first and second floor plans

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Klumb, Henry
Okami, Takehiko

Plan type: Cheney/Hardy.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of floor plans found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects to categorize types of roof structure. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [PLANTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof type: Flat.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof pattern type: 0303 Cruciform/Rectangle/two/more level

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify types of roof pattern from an aerial perspective found Frank Lloyd Wright projects.These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFPATTERNTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: None recorded.