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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Housing Development for Cooperative Homesteads, Inc., project [Detroit, Michigan] (1942)

Drawing: Perspective from workshop end with signature lower right

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4201.009

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; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: 34" x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Green, Aaron G.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 254] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 4, page 3] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 59] 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 color illustration [Figure or plate 27a] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).