Wright Chat

That was my intention with this thread: viewtopic.php?t=14193

Regrettably, I did not do all of the necessary maintenance, meaning that some of Avila's renders that appeared before us were not duly copied here . . .

Thanks for the housekeeping, Juan and others !

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Oh, quite so. He seems quite modest; I'll see if I can encourage him to do as you suggest . . .

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Thanks, Juan, that's a real service.

A YouTube page of Hugo Avila videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3Icn ... jAA/videos

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That's a nice little ode to this house, graced by several excellent photos. (No one else seems to have shot the corner of the living room looking through the door to the lanai.) And the writer/visitor leaves us a couple of tidbits on how to "operate" a Usonian, too !

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The Los Angeles premiere of the movie occurred in Beverly Hills last evening. Was anyone here able to attend ?

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That's one of the more successful designs contrived to make lemonade out of a sloping site. (I wonder how many yards of fill were required to create that level lawn in back !) Architects' own houses are always intriguing to study. Typically, the urge to deploy one's favorite architectural tropes mus...

There are exceptions to be had, on both sides of the fence: Scarves or place mats printed with cropped images of "Starry Night" or "The Scream"---even the Mona Lisa---are to be had at the Met or the Louvre, I'm sure, while good reproductions of Wright's chairs and light fixtures ...

Will I be grateful when Wright's name is no longer the buzz-word it has become---when this sorry misuse of an icon and an almost ubiquitous misunderstanding of his work is finally replaced by some other fad ? Yes . . . yes I will. I wish I could say that the keepers of the flame were doing a better ...

I'm still working my way through this. It's a bumpy ride, the antsy movements of the presenter matched by the restless rearrangement of what's on the screen. But it's a priceless document nevertheless, with remarks by the aged Mark Mills as the highlight, along with grainy images of his work. I hadn...

https://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?t=8110&hilit=Farm+Cottage https://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?t=6458&hilit=Farm+Cottage Ten drawings in the Archive: https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%28Frank+Lloyd+Wright%29+AND+%28Farm+Cottage%29+AND+%28Kaufmann%29...

Thanks for finding Howe's block house. I see a Wright scrawl on the exterior perspective view; in Hession and Quigley we are told that this design was presented, in fourteen sheets, to Wright on his birthday in 1949. Wright wrote "Special" on the view drawing. Howe subsequently proposed th...

I don't see evidence that they have more than permission to play with Wright's designs---which permission seems not to include active oversight, as far as I can tell from other licensing and cooperative arrangements undertaken lately. I'm not finding the Jester model as I recall it, in the archive h...

I didn't find the Howe design. We've been looking at models from this outfit for several years now; their Jester house was an early one presented here. My impression is that Skyline Ink could use more seasoned architectural oversight or input. It is always a plus to have unbuilt or lost Wright recre...

, , , but not PPG polished plate, presumably. In one of Taliesin historian Keiran Murphy's longer blog posts the Hillside glazing is discussed, a bit short of halfway down the page: https://www.keiranmurphy.com/tag/hillside-home-school/ In a canny move typical of Wright, I think, he inquired about c...

Timonium: a drive-through porte cochère is most unusual in a contemporary residence, isn't it . . .

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