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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


Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Exterior perspective from right of entrance center line.

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.003

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, unspecified; watercolor; mounted to board. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 26 x 12"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Mahony, Marion

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 81, page 107] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 32] 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 27] 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 74, page 146] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 12] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2009, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 70] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).

Appears as a color illustration [page 10] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 96] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930 (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).

Appears as a color illustration [page 108] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 88, 90-91] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).