Wright Chat

"The Prairie School" by H. Allen Brooks, pages 254-5, with an early photo of the principal exterior and the floor plan, indicates the enclosed veranda on the main level, with 9 square skylights, was built as designed in 1913. "Mason City, Iowa, An Architectural Heritage," pg 55, with a later view fr...

When I visited Wingspread in 1987, and climbed the spiral stair, there was a cactus in a pot on the balcony at the base, and a slender cactus, tied occasionally to keep it from falling over, grew the entire distance of the stair.

Which would you prefer: 1) The Blythe House in Mason City, with 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 4394 sf, 1.95 acres with park view, for $475K and a few months of blustery weather... or 2) a 1 bedroom 1 bath, 500 sf condo, with a view of a parking lot and a gas station in West Hollywood - with permanent drought...

Dyson, like Lautner, learned from FLW without copying him. Wallace Cunningham (post-FLW) is another who has gone his own way.

Interesting. Looks like Watson picked more from Lautner and Dyson than Wright.

The only Maher building on the West Coast, which has long been used by the Women's City Club of Pasadena as their private headquarters, has been gifted by the club (which dissolved last year) to Pasadena Heritage. This may make the house more open to the public. Why such an event matters? The house ...

Geiger was obsessed with Hillside. He made many drawings of it, and wrote about it. I never saw much of this, but assume it has gone to U of M with the rest of his archive.

Turner, as builder of Christie, would not have had anything to say about siting. That was Christie's choice, apparently.

Only volumes 11 (Preliminary Studies 1933 - 1959) and 12 (In His Renderings 1887 - 1959) would include images specifically of the perfs, and there are none.

That was the fire Geiger claimed to be virtual arson.

"Off market"
That didn't take long.
Paul, do you know anything about this sale?

G/W proves that, however delightful they may be, perfs are not necessary. Christie and Baird are also sans perfs and delightful. Perfs were not even intended for Baird. On the other hand, while perfs were intended for Brandes, it was built without them; they were added much later. In this case, I be...

There was a sizable stack of Storer blocks behind Lloyd's own house, but he never used them in that residence.

Brewer is a refinement, close in quality to Chahroudi, but better in its choice of materials.

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