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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


Automobile Objective and Planetarium for Gordon Strong, project [Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland] (1924)

Drawing: See 1705.001 Perspective sketch, original by Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2505.??1

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: Stronghold, Inc..
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing, Japanese tracing paper with graphite pencil; .
Drawing measurements: 33 x 22"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Furniture, Loose/Stand/lecturn.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 98, page 89] in De Long, David G., Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996).