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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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Working Drawings Coordinator

One of the most encompassing approaches by John Geiger to the study of Frank Lloyd Wright commissions was the creation of 10 data tables that provided places to record project coordinator, preliminary drawing coordinator, working drawings coordinator, specifications writer, structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, landscape design, supervising apprentice during construction, and building contractor. Then, drawings for the commission were listed. While such level of detail was usually not available to Geiger, this search represents a refined model for the study of the design and building process that other researchers may want to carry forward. Only Wright commissions having information recorded for these categories of contribution are returned in this search, showing a total of 299 records.

Project Information

House for Rose Pauson [Phoenix, Arizona] (1938)

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: Pauson, Rose.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Shiprock.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Desert and lapped boards.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 18.

Drawing Number and Description

4011.??1     First and second floor plans. probably for Hitchcock
4011.001     Perspective from the back from below the hill
4011.002     Perspective from the back left
4011.002     Perspective from the back from below the hill
4011.003     Lower floor plan and rear elevation; original Wright sketch
4011.004     Lower and upper floor plans; second stage develpoment by Wright
4011.005     Plan and two elevations of pump house and carport by Wright
4011.006     Elevation of entrance side of house, carport; early study by Wrig
4011.006     Elevation form street
4011.007     Ground and upper floor plans, early presentation drawings
4011.009     Perspective from the rear of house; early view
4011.021     Lateral cross section through living room and entry
4011.049     Longitudinal cross sections
4011.050     Cross section through stair to second floor
4011.053     Interior elevatins of dining and entrance hall showing the stair
4011.054     Cross sections; 1/4" Longitudinal and lateral+ 3/4" @ living roo
4011.055     Elevations
4011.068     Pump house, elevations section and roof plan

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
Thomson, James
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Working drawings coordinator: Mosher, Robert Keel
Construction supervision: Mosher, Robert Keel

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.