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- Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:42 am
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- Topic: Wikipedia and Wright
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Re: Wikipedia and Wright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright The length of the entry seems commensurate with the size of Wright's life and output. I find no egregious errors within the first ten paragraphs, though there are some minor omissions or inappropriate emphases: * Fallingwater is hardly the best exempl...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:45 pm
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
Good. And it should be stressed that the shapes of these doors is not some kind of willful weirdness but simply the result of the voids---the negative forms---left between the battered desert-concrete walls . . .
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- Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:37 pm
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
Is Jim correct in surmising that the bell-tower door might be post-Wright ? Sorry that my familiarity with TW history isn't what it could be . . .
Not to be utterly pedantic, but two of the doors are irregular hexagons, the other two irregular pentagons---I believe.
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Not to be utterly pedantic, but two of the doors are irregular hexagons, the other two irregular pentagons---I believe.
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- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:14 pm
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- Topic: Emil and Anna Bach House (1915) in Chicago
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Re: Emil and Anna Bach House (1915) in Chicago
I appreciate the reference. I didn't know there was a book about my favorite Wright house of the 'teens. I look forward to the interview, and the book. Great photo of the house ! Happy to see a flourishing sumac growing there . . .
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- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:00 am
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
JimM was kind enough to go looking for images of angled doors at Taliesin West, and came up with these: http://sdrdesign.com/TWAngledDoors2.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/TWAngledDoors1.jpg Jim offers that, of the smaller photos, the first two doors are found at the office, the last he believes is not by ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:23 pm
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
Thanks, Jim. No one should be surprised if drawings or sketches of such doors can't be found; Wright is said to have sketched details on scraps of wood for changes in his own two campuses.
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- Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:02 pm
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
Do you know where in the building they are found ?
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- Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:33 pm
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- Topic: Taliesin West
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Re: Taliesin West
Hi, capie. Knock yourself out: https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Ta ... =1;size=48
and let us know what you found ?
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and let us know what you found ?
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- Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:29 pm
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- Topic: 1962 documentary about FLW
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Re: 1962 documentary about FLW
Heh--thanks for that priceless anecdotage, sir. I suppose the "bring with you" list from Taliesin included a tuxedo . . . which you had at hand, from your choir performance duties ? The audience at one of the presentations by Wright seen in the Cronkite-hosted piece appeared to lap up his remarks, d...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:32 am
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- Topic: 1962 documentary about FLW
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Re: 1962 documentary about FLW
Well, no---not quite that fine, but uplifting anyway. "Original Music Score by George Kleinsinger."
I wonder what Bernard Hermann would have done with it ? And I credit another old Wright docu with bringing back for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjKKRLad0DU
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I wonder what Bernard Hermann would have done with it ? And I credit another old Wright docu with bringing back for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjKKRLad0DU
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- Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:48 pm
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- Topic: 1962 documentary about FLW
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Re: 1962 documentary about FLW
One rarity here is the voice of Mrs Wright, which I don't think we have much of at all. There's nothing wrong with my ears, but I have to listen closely to Mr Wright to catch every word---and I fail some of the time. Mrs Wright was perhaps not recorded well, and I missed much of what she said as wel...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:57 pm
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- Topic: Guggenheim museum
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Re: Guggenheim museum
I didn't notice indication of how the ducts in the Y-shaped ramp slabs taper (as shown in plan). I assume the diagonal bottom "leaf" of the slab construction is structural, and would therefor presumably not want to diminish in size just to provide an increasingly constricted triangular opening . . . S
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:57 pm
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- Topic: Guggenheim museum
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Re: Guggenheim museum
Yes. There are a couple of plan drawings in which a hot-air duct is shown circling around a ramp, starting at the supply end and tapering perfectly evenly from a broad width to a narrow point, c. 330 degrees later, with registers placed periodically along the way.
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- Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:32 pm
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- Topic: Guggenheim museum
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Re: Guggenheim museum
Heh-heh. Thanks, Reidy. I should have screen-grabbed the other plaque designs when I passed them.
I'd gladly put the Guggenheim drawing images in some kind of order, if Artstor would be interested in having volunteer help.
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I'd gladly put the Guggenheim drawing images in some kind of order, if Artstor would be interested in having volunteer help.
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- Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:13 pm
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- Topic: Guggenheim museum
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Re: Guggenheim museum
This drawing for the brass or bronze plaque set into the pavement in front of the entrance to the museum is one of a half-dozen such designs, sprinkled at random throughout Artstor's Guggenheim file. This one is marked there "use this." The variations consist mostly of different inspiring mottos; a ...