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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

Weekend House for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufman, Sr., "Fallingwater" [Bear Run, Pennsylvania] (1935)

Drawing: Perspective from below the waterfall; preliminary to final

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3602.003

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; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 32 x 14"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: Preliminary to the final perspective. Rocks and foliage by FLLW. John W. Geiger 04/14/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 139] 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 47, page 31] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).

Appears as a color illustration [page 193] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).