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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

CONTRIBUTING SPECIALIZATIONS:
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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail

Beth Sholom Synagogue [Elkins Park, Pennsylvania] (1954)

Drawing: Perspective from street

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5313.001

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.

Notes and comments: "Noted at botom right: Scheme 1 for American Synagogue for Beth Sholom Rabbi Cohen. May be increased up to 10,000 seats or Diminished to 500. Various forms by Modification of planes--infifnite FLLW/." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 17, page 54] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 308] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 99] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 237] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 301, page 205] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).