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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

House for Mrs. Alice Millard, "La Miniatura" [Pasadena, California] (1923)

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: Millard, Alice (Mrs. George Madison).

Sobriquet or alternative place name: La Miniatura.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, textile.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 17.

Drawing Number and Description

2302.??1     Aerial perspective form the garden left
2302.??2     Three floor plans, probably for Hitchcock INM
2302.??3     Site plan, Los Angeles County Assesor, Book 52 (1924-39), p. 49
2302.001     Perspective from roadway towards entry.
2302.002     Floor plan, section and details
2302.003     Floor plan, very early
2302.004     Original schematic floor plan by Wright
2302.005     Floor plan, very early
2302.010     East elevation, entrance
2302.011     Main floor plan
2302.012     Living room balcony, bedroom, bath floor plan
2302.013     Roof plan and balcony plan of studio bedroom and cross sections
2302.014     Longitudinal section
2302.015     Lower floor plan
2302.018     Elevation
2302.019     Elevation
2302.032     Aerial perspective; See ??1 same perspective

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.

Howe, John
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Lloyd

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.

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959.

Construction finished: 3/29/1924.

Notes and References

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