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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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Structural Engineer

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

Hotel for Rogers Lacy, "The Lone Star", project [Dallas, Texas] (1947)

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: Lacy, Rogers.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: The Lone Star.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Poured in place.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 23.

Drawing Number and Description

4606.001     Perspective from entrance side
4606.002     Cross section through elevator lobby and dining room
4606.003     Perspective of lobby/court
4606.004     Ground floor plan
4606.004     Floor plan of ground floor
4606.009     perspeective, cutaway of interior
4606.010     Interior perspective of room
4606.011     Perspective looking down into open interior court
4606.012     Cross section through non-tower portion of building
4606.016     Mezzanine floor plan
4606.017     First floor plan
4606.018     Floor plan second floor
4606.019     Third floor plan
4606.023     Floor plan sixteenth floor
4606.024     Floor plan of apartment at top of tower
4606.031     Elevation/section; Wright's first study for the building
4606.032     Ground floor plan
4606.036     First floor plan with overlay showing tower
4606.057     Perspective; study from front and left side.
4606.066     Cross section through lobby at lower mass
4606.068     Perspective; study from front and right side.
4606.072     Perspective; study from front and right side.
4606.073     Perspective; study from front and right side.

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.

Besinger, Curtis
Howe, John
Patell, Rustam B J
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Structural engineering: Peters, William Wesley
Structural engineering: Polivka, Jaroslav J.

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: 8/1/1947.

Preliminary drawings date: 8/1/1947.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (1) See drawing 4606.001 signed this date. Geiger 051/13/96 (a) "C. Besinger worked with J. Howe and Mr. W. at Taliesin (not HIllside) to develope design. Did several of the presentation sheets on Japanese silk paper" Curtis W. Besinger rec.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Besinger, Curtis. Working with Mr. Wright, What it Was Like. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; Autographed to Geiger by B. [ISBN: 0-521-48122-8].
Cleary, Richard. Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright. Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press. [ISBN: 0-88039-036-0].
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 3. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Menocal, Narcisso (editor). Wright Studies, Volume Two: Fallingwater and Pittsburgh. Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1956-X].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1421-5].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8108-1773-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-518-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-522-2].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs. Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1235-2].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 4, 1939-1349. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1803-9].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 5, 1949-1959. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1854-3].