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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: Perspective from Lake Street (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.005

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.
Drawing measurements: 27 x 18"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgeführte Bauten (Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G., 1911). Note by John Geiger: Color print of LXIV(b)

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 135, page 207] 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 60, page 52] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate LXIV(a)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909) (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate LXIV(b)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Buildings, Plans and Designs (New York: Horizon Press, 1963). Note by John Geiger: Reprint of Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910/1911.

Appears as a color illustration [page 71] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).