Wright Chat

A standard complaint about Eichlers is that the interior courts are too small to get enough sun, which would explain the dearth of planting.

His most important collaboration since the Mitchell house in Racine.

Nobuko Tsuchiura, the first woman architect in Japan, and her husband, Kameki, worked for Wright in Tokyo and LA ca. 1920.

Didn't Isabel Roberts practice in Florida?

Last book might have been A Testament.

The ground-floor family room is an addition. Don't know about the second floor.

Balch had a major restoration (including retrofitting a steel beam running the length of the house) a few years ago. It's on next year's Wright Plus.

Once when Manson lectured at Barnsdall Park he said that he was reluctant to write about a building he hadn't seen. He was never able to get to the Imperial Hotel, and this was one of the reasons he didn't cover Wright's output any further.

Part of the explanation is that until 1959 Wright himself was putting out Wright information - in books, lectures, interviews and exhibitions.

There's a similar story about Mrs. Gamble in Pasadena, that I've heard more than once. It is said that she was all set to sign on the sale of her house when she overheard one of the prospective buyers say "I think we'll paint it white". She called the deal off on the spot and donated the house to US...

Twombly attributes the decline to three causes, the big one being, as mentioned, his drinking. The second was his ill-tempered peevishness with clients (which the drinking could have exacerbated). The third was Adler's departure; he was the engineering brains as Sullivan was the design brains, and e...

The story about Schindler's backyard bamboo is that he planted it once he had neighbors on that side. With only open land to the west he hadn't needed it. For a brief glimpse of the house in 1924 see 36:50.

Shoshana Knapp Milgram, who's currently at work on a biography of Rand, tracked the quote to one of the At Taliesin newsletters of the period. I don't know if it's been published.

Who could forget the bubble houses?

According to Toker, he had an arrangement with the WPC whereby he could come and spend the night any time he wanted, so he didn't give the house up entirely. Staying out of the say of tours would have been an inconvenience, thought.

Does anybody know where that block (ca. 2:50 in David C's video of Saturday the 25th) is from? It looks a lot like Ennis but isn't quite.