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TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

Type of Occupancy Category HOUSING/Apartment/5 or more

Apartments for the Edgar J. Kaufman Charitable Trust, "Point View Residences", scheme 1, project [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] (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.

Name of client: Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Point View Residences.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Apartment/5 or more.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Poured in place.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 11.

Drawing Number and Description

5222.001     Perspective from the Northeast; below the hill
5222.002     Floor plan at lower level, apartments J and K, and L and M
5222.003     Floor plan at garage level, apartments H and I
5222.004     Floor plan at street level, living room level, apartments F and G
5222.005     Floor plan at living room level apartments B and C and D and E
5222.033     Floor plan at elev. 1110.
5222.037     Floor plan at elev. 1176-4 1/2"
5222.039     East elevation
5222.040     North elevatiion
5222.042     Cross section
5222.043     Longitudinal cross section

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
Project Coordinator: Howe, John
Preliminary working drawings coordinator: Howe, John
Working drawings coordinator: Besinger, Curtis

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. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: December 10, 1952.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.