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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


Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [New York, New York] (1944)

Drawing: Floor plan of fourth level

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.060

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 55"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Protetch: This drawing is recorded as having been for sale by art dealer Max Protetch during the 1980S; may appear listed in Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings from 1893-1959 Exhibition And Sales for the Preservation of Taliesin [1983].

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 331, page 344] in Levine, Neil, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton, New Jersery: Princeton University Press, 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 74, page 41] 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 [Figure or plate 25, page 4] in Protetch, Max, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987 (New York: Max Protech Gallery, 1987). Note by John Geiger: (Catalog listing drawings for sale)