This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The collection includes specification documents for approximately 170 projects. In the 1980s, the FLW Foundation gave each Wright project a job number, which we use in the archive to refer to the various projects. The specifications in this collection are arranged chronologically by project number. Specifications directly incorporated on design drawings are not represented in this collection (see Architectural Drawings ).
Specification documents range from descriptions and instructions regarding the quality of work and materials to guidelines for plumbing, electricity, wood, metal, and painting work. Also included in the collection can be correspondence, contracts, structural calculations, licenses and subcontracts for design objects and furnishing. Please note, these types of records may also appear in the correspondence collection.
ca. 1890-1960
The specifications are arranged chronologically by project number and are divided into six series: Series I: 1900s; Series II: 1910s; Series III: 1920s; Series IV: 1930s; Series V: 1940s; Series VI: 1950s
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : specifications, ca. 1890-1960. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).
Accession number--2013.006.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
This collection was processed by Nicole L. Richard in 2016.
2018-01-05 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect internationally recognized for his innovative building design, the Taliesin architecture school and fellowship, and his philosophy of "organic architecture."
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