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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


Office Building for the Luxfer Prism Company, project [] (1895)

Drawing: Elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 9509.001

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: No type recorded.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: 18"x28"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: "Noted at bottom right: 'Study for office building facade employing Luxfer Prism-Lighting 1894-5." (In Wright's handwriting) Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962).

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 173, page 84] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as an illustration [Figure or plate 27, page 122] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 461, page 356] in Sloan, Julie L., Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Rizzoli, 2001).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 2] 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.