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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


Drafting Room for the Taliesin Fellowship Complex [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1933)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from southwest

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3301.004

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: 20 1/2 x 17 1/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1887-1901 (Volume 1)2, fig. 96 uses .004 to identify this drawing and in Selected Writings, V3, p. 158 he uses .001. Which is correct? John W. Geiger 12/20/01

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 96] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 133] 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.