THE GEIGER DATABASE


SEARCH OPTIONS
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

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


Plan for Greater Baghdad and Crescent Opera House, project [Baghdad, Iraq] (1957)

Drawing: Perspective; Crescent Opera and Civic Auditorium

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5733.007

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; ink, gold; blue ink, mounted on illustration board.
Drawing measurements: 55" x 33"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 485] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 10.6, page 198] in Alofsin, Anthony, Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999).

Appears as a color illustration [page 9] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 3, page 77] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 74] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 158] 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 68b] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 261] 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 [Figure or plate 618, page 306] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 191] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).