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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Doheny Ranch Development, project [Beverly Hills, California] (1921)

Drawing: Aerial perpsective; lady with parasol

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2104.008

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: Wolf, Erving and Joyce.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 37" x 19"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: "Inscribed at lower left; Doheny Development looking down on Terraced roofs. The whole becoming a terraced 'garden' suitable to the region. FLLW/1921." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 7, page 12] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 68] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.

Appears as a color illustration [page 120] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 430, page 259] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 198, page 212] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).