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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

Imperial Hotel, scheme 2 [Tokyo, Japan] (1915)

Drawing: Elevation; polychrome carved stone abstraction above a fireplace

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1509.005

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil; colored pencil; and gold paint. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 36 x 22"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Ornament/Stone, carved.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 286] 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 color illustration [page 36] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 62] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a color illustration [page 257] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).