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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


Imperial Hotel, scheme 2 [Tokyo, Japan] (1915)

Drawing: Elevation of leaded glass window, transom, and side lights

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1509.494

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: 22" x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Leaded Glass/Windows.

Notes and comments: (a) ..."Unlike the stained glass windows of his prairie houses, which employed stained, iridescent, and flashed glass, these windows for the Imperial Hotel employed clear glass throughout." Phoenix

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 279] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).