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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

House for Mrs. Owen D. Young at "San Marcos-in-the-Desert", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1927)

Drawing: Perspective from below the hill; cut off line at grade; Kaufmann

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2707.008

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: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Notes and comments: (a) This is a different drawing from others that are similar. The boulders at grade seem to be rendered more heavily and there is a cut off line at grade. John W. Geiger 04/22/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 107] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 14, page 3] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987 (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: (Catalog listing drawings for sale)