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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


Exhibition Usonian House for the Museum of Modern Art, project [New York, New York] (1940)

Drawing: Schedule of wall and sash units

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4010.006

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/Conceptual.
Sheet Number: 6
Scale: 1/4" = 1' - 0".
Media: Linen with black ink.
Drawing measurements: 27 x 36"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John
Date Range
Date created: circa 06/01/40.
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Notes and comments: (a) Howe claims sheets #4 and #5 as published in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks and Futagawa, Yukio. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941 (Volume 6) Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1986), so I have given him credit for the entire set of drawings. John W. Geiger 02/06/05

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 15, page 200] in ----, The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).