Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL (Exterior perspective and partial plan)
Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867–1959
c. 1929-30
An architectural drawing—ink and graphite on paper—by Frank Lloyd Wright showing an exterior perspective and partial plan of Unity Temple intended to convey the building’s massing, proportions, and internal arrangement for design and presentation.
You notice the heavy, block-like Prairie forms rendered in warm sepia ink, set against a wide, empty field of paper with the crisply measured floor plan beneath and a small red mark that visually anchors the composition.
The sheet crystallizes Wright’s method of linking exterior form and interior plan, articulating the geometric, spatial ideas of the Prairie School that helped steer American architecture toward modernism.
Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
23 1/4 x 34 7/8" (59.1 x 88.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund, and Victoria Newhouse Purchase Fund
Accession
279.1999
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