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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 Samuel and Harriet Freeman [Los Angeles, California] (1924)

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: Freeman, Samuel and Harriet.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

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

2402.??1     Lower and first floor plan
2402.??2     Detail of concrete block pattern
2402.001     Aerial perspective from street
2402.002     Perspective from the left below the hill
2402.003     Floor plan of lower level
2402.004     Floor plan of upper level
2402.005     Elevations
2402.005     South and nort elevations
2402.008     South and West elevations
2402.014     Lower floor plan
2402.015     Main floor plan
2402.018     North and East (labeled West) elevations
2402.019     Cross sections at living room and thru stairwell, entry, garage
2402.020     Cross section through living room, kitchen, and stairwell
2402.025     Lower floor plan
2402.026     Main floor plan
2402.028     Elevations south and west

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.

Wright, Frank 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.

Notes and References

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