Finding Aid for the Frank Lloyd Wright architectural drawings, 1899-1957 0000101
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
Title: Frank Lloyd Wright architectural designs
Identifier/Call Number: 0000101
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
(1 flat file drawer)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1918-1921
Date (inclusive): 1899-1957
creator:
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
creator:
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
These drawings were part of R. M. Schindler's papers and donated by Mark Schindler, 1968. Additional materials gifted by Miss
Carnzu Clark, 1975.
Frank Lloyd Wright architectural designs, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, and spent much of his childhood in the American Midwest.
He briefly attended the University of Wisconsin for two semesters. In 1887 Wright left for Chicago, eventually finding work
as a draftsman with the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. A year later, in 1889, he began to work for Adler & Sullivan
as a draftsman. By 1890 Wright was head draftsman in the firm and handled all of the residential design work in the office.
Three years later, in 1893, Wright established his own independent practice.
The association between Frank Lloyd Wright and R.M. Schindler began in 1914, when Schindler contacted Wright and asked for
a position within his firm. At the time Wright had just been commissioned to design the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, so he took
Schindler on and promoted him to run his American operations out of the Oak Park studio in Illinois. Schindler worked for
Wright a total of five years, from 1918 to 1920 in the Midwest and from 1920 through 1922 in Los Angeles overseeing the building
of the Barnsdall project.
This collection is composed of architectural drawings and reprographic copies of Frank Lloyd Wright designs, drawn by R. M.
Schindler, and others in Frank Lloyd Wright's office, dating from 1899 through 1957. The majority of designs are for residential
buildings in the Chicago area.
Related Archival Materials note
Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R. M. Schindler, 1914-1929, bulk 1918-1922, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 960076. .
ADC Study collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Frank Lloyd Wright archive, Avery Library, Columbia University.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Schindler, Mark
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Architectural drawings
Architecture -- California
Projects I. 1899-1957
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
Drawer 43, FlatFile 589
Drawer 43, FlatFile 588
Drawer 43, FlatFile 596
Drawer 43, FlatFile 601
Drawer 43, FlatFile 595
Drawer 43, FlatFile 603
Drawer 43, FlatFile 594
Drawer 43, FlatFile 604
Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan) 1918
creator:
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
16 reprographic copies of floor plans, sections, and elevations; 6 sketches of details; one blueprint of sash details, one
blueprint of birds eye view of hotel; one original and one copy of the newspaper The Japan Advertiser dated May 14, 1920.
Drawer 43, FlatFile 592
Drawer 43, FlatFile 599
Drawer 43, FlatFile 598
Drawer 43, FlatFile 365
Drawer 43, FlatFile 597
Stewart, George house 196 Hot Springs (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 1909-1910
Drawer 43, FlatFile 602
Drawer 43, FlatFile 605
Drawer 43, FlatFile 600