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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


House for Ralph Cudney, "Sahuaro", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1929)

Drawing: Main floor plan, preliminary presentation drawing

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2706.004

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/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 32 3/4 x 21 3/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Lloyd

Notes and comments: (a) The plan usually shown is the one by Jack Howe drawn for Hitchcock, In he Nature of Materials. John W. Geiger 09/06/00 (b) This drawing is by Lloyd Wright. See the lettering. John W. Geiger 11/14/05

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 173, page 164] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994).

Appears as a color illustration [page 186] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 203, page 216] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 140, page 114] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).