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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


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

Drawing: Floor plan at upper level of hexagonal scheme

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4305.003

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; graphite pencil; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: 24 x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Berndtson, Peter

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 276] 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 black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 312, page 323] in Levine, Neil, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton, New Jersery: Princeton University Press, 1996).