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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


Resort Development for Huntington Hartford, scheme 1, project [Hollywood, California] (1947)

Drawing: Aerial perspective

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4721.002

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: Wolf, Erving and Joyce.
Drawing Type: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; crayon and ink.
Drawing measurements: 35" x 48"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Source of attribution: Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings exhibition at MOMA in New York, 1962. See Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 60] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 144] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 316, page 278] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).