Wright Chat

Here's one branch of William Carey Wright's family tree ... courtesy of www.geni.com, but no Franks here. Mads Jacobsen Schytte his father → Jacob Clausen Schytte his father → Claus Peterson Schytte his father → Nonne Gunnar Aagensdatter his mother → Marianne Esbernsdatter Udsen her mother → Ebbe Vo...

I have a Facebook friend who is a foreign architectural student needing inspiration in designing a "Horse club and sports complex." Did Mr. Wright ever design such buildings? Yes, but probably not specifically in line with your friend's needs. Nevertheless ... 1. The "Play Resort and Sports Club" f...

Thanks! Never suspected a door was there from photos shot from across the room... so the overhead trusses would be parallel to the door "header". Must have been a frequently used shortcut. Yes about the "header", but in my long experience at TW, few ever went out onto the small terrace at the west ...

:I dare say most every photo is reversed ... it's like seeing everything underwater.

Where is Section 4 of the 25th Amendment when you need it.

Yes, Starkly simple, but there doesn't seem to be much their there.

Nice house, Jim. Where would it be located ? What does the name Moy Hill signify ? Tasty---very tasty. S Thanks, Stephen. Moy is a small village outside Inverness, Scotland and located alongside Loch Moy which has a small island with ruins dating to the origins of clan MacIntosh. I was lucky enough...

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Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:09 pm

Wasn't there a TAA Building at Yellowstone or another National Park?

Undoubtedly you are referring to the 1954 Restaurant and Delicatessen designed for Yosemite Park, California. Drawings are featured in Taschen: Wright ... 1943-59, p 362

It's Marcel Breuer's St. Johns Abbey Church: Collegeville, Minnesota. Breuer also designed the campus, and built a church for the Annunciation Abbey, University of Mary, south of Bismark, North Dakota

https://saintjohnsabbey.org/church

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mary

An interesting lecture in a rather unlikely place ... Mississippi State University, in Starkville, Mississippi, a city of some 25,000 people ... and a town with a decidedly checkered history (see it's Wikipedia entry), but at the end of the lecture who knew which building was the last featured struc...

Looking for more images of that drafting stool. The drafting table base makes perfect sense, its triangles adapted to the task at hand (as it were). The stool: not so much ? Was it someone's afterthought (or assignment), to make something related to the table base ? What is that T-shaped construct ...

It seems that "prefab" these days is about modular construction with component like a room or bathroom or kitchen made in a factory and trucked to a site for assembly. This is, to me, a process that is flawed due to the transportation issues. Why not a system of posts and panels? I think Shindler h...

Voisin's dealers demanded a mascot on the radiator, as all other luxury or sporting Grand Touring cars of the period had them. Gabriel Voisin, thinking it a ridiculous and unnecessary bauble, gave the dealers and customers a mascot, but designed it on his terms: it was light weight (scraps from the...

Yes, the Illinois was "for Chicago", but to be fair to Mr. Wright, he intended his Mile High to be set in a one-mile-square park, his reasoning being squarely in line with decentralization. Rather than cluttering the landscape with buildings and streets covering every scrap of land ... it would be ...