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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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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 Dr. and Mrs. Isadore Zimmerman [Manchester, New Hampshire] (1950)

Drawing: JG Sheet 8A, Reflected ceiling plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5214.?24

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: Geiger, John W..
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Sheet Number: 8A
Scale: 1/4" = 1' - 0".
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Geiger, John
Date Range
Date created: .
Date revised: 6/11/1951

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

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