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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

Building for the H. C. Price Company, "Price Tower" [Bartlesville, Oklahoma] (1952)

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: Price, Sr., Harold C..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Price Tower.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Office/office building.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Poured in place.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 28.

Drawing Number and Description

5215.??3     Perspective from the street corner
5215.001     Perspective from the west
5215.003     Perspective from the street corner
5215.004     Perspective from corner
5215.005     Floor at apartment level and site plan
5215.006     Floor plan of apartment level and planted deck
5215.007     Cutaway perspective of dwelling unit
5215.008     Perspective of Mr. Price office
5215.009     Interior perpective
5215.010     Interior cut away perpsective
5215.011     Elevation, cut with floors added?
5215.014     Ground floor plan
5215.015     Floor plan of mezzanine
5215.016     Typical floor plan
5215.017     Floor plan of 17th floor
5215.018     Cross section
5215.021     Floor plan of typical floor
5215.022     Floor plan of I know not what by Wright
5215.024     Site plan by Wright but where is the tower?
5215.027     Elevation, early
5215.080     Typical main floor of tower, strructual drawing
5215.143     Detail plan taken through upper part of office to show mural.
5215.155     Plan and elevation of newstand
5215.185     Perspective of dwelling unit
5215.186     Interior perspective master bedroom
5215.202     Office chair, no arms
5215.203     Office chair with arms
5215.210     Office chair

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
Wiehle, Louis
Working drawings coordinator: Howe, John
Working drawings coordinator: Besinger, Curtis
Structural engineering: Peters, William Wesley
Structural engineering: Glickman, Mendel

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: 10/30/1952.

Preliminary drawings date: 9/30/1952.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: Besinger.

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:

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.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1715-6].
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 1951-1959 (Volume 8). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-519-2].
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].
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 5, 1949-1959. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1854-3].