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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

CONTRIBUTING SPECIALIZATIONS:
Supervising Apprentice

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Country House for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Johnson, "Wingspread" [Racine, Wisconsin] (1937)

Drawing: Floor plan; very early with work by Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3703.004

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/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: No atribution on this drawing but it look like 100% FLLW. If it is, it is an example of FLLW ability to conceptulize a building before comitting it to paper. This house is almost all there with few things left to be developed. John W. Geiger 05/15/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 106, page 70] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).