Wright Chat

Napier NZ became an Art Deco treasure-trove after an earthquake largely wiped the town out in 1931. The same happened to Long Beach CA after an earthquake in 1933.

The fraternity didn't go with Wright, but the house they finally built borrowed his siting and massing.

I'd love to see one of Ennis as designed, with its ceilings, windows, exterior block-work, even the lot Wright designed it for.

Was the Kaufman office "unbuilt"? I thought that he built it and that his son donated it to the Victoria & Albert Museum.

They also have a tour of the home and office.

Several years ago a traveling exhibition showed (now colorless) Greek marbles alongside reconstructions of their colors. I saw the show and thought they looked like old-fashioned comic books (not even graphic novels).

Robie / Tomek and Storer / Lowes (project) are some other examples.

Fallingwater
Heurtley
Cheney
La Miniatura
Goetsch-Winckler

I had a very hard time pruning Walker from the list (among about 10 others).

Nobody to date has mentioned any of Wright's own homes. Is that because they served so many other uses as well?

Also on YouTube

More on the Plaza suite. Note the dead-duck motif on the armchairs.

Rattenbury says they called it Taliesin III.

One would have to be a serious Wright-lover to think of the house as a country retreat. It's in an uneventful town, subject to brutal heat for much of the year and not commutable to anyplace interesting.

Pearce, in the mountains northeast of LA, is adjacent to steep canyons. On a visit some years ago the owner told us that high-enough winds can create powerful vacuums and that at least once these had caused the north-side living room windows to explode outward. (For the record, Wright planned a fire...

Gammage is on the landing path to PHX if you're lucky. I've seen it from the air twice.

YouTube doesn't mention that the house is a remodeling of a pretty ordinary 20s/30s stucco bungalow.

Article about the geological issues in the neighborhood

Reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy of organic architecture

Except for the white paint, I like it. This, like Hanna and an Aaron Green we had a thread on a few years back, is on Stanford land leased to the homeowners. Otherwise it would be at least twice as much.