Wright Chat

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 ...

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.

Roderick Grant wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:40 am

Rood, that sounds right: Gordon. But he wasn't married or was dallying when I met him.

Barber's marriage to Nancy Cronkite broke up while they were living at Taliesin West.

There was an apprentice named Barber (don't recall his first name), though he is not in the Directory. I met him at an event at Zimmermann. I doubt it is the same person; he would be in his 70s or 80s now. Don't know if it's the same person, but Gordon Barber was an apprentice in the 1970's. At the...

SDR wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:02 pm One could find Wright's angular play in Lautner's plan---though Wright built many more such houses after 1950 than before---but other than right angles you won't find the elder man's favored 30- and 45-degree ones in the Schaffer drawing. S [/quote] Hmm ... I fin...

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I'm not claiming any direct connction by this but it is interesting to note the very general similarity between the living room pavilion of the Mesa House and the IIT College of Architecture in Chicago many decades later. Both structures place double beams on top and incorporate them into the image...

This, Teater's Knoll and the Boomer house (a desert design originally) all look like they aspire to flight. The Gull, The Eagle . . . and the Chicken ? Mr. Wright may have redesigned (and renamed) the house for the desert for cousin Jorgine, but the original design was meant for George Clark on a s...

juankbedoya wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:07 pm

Roderick Grant wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 30, 2020 4:26 pm

More like a praying mantis.

I see it more like a ship taking fly, going to the sky like Teater's Knoll.

Yeah, but how did that ship happen to land in the desert southwest, a couple thousand miles from the ocean?

An elegant design that is well endowed with delight and maybe commodity, but firmness, not so much. Wright's letter makes clear his awareness that the single thickness lapped wood walls and roof will move, cup, and check, that water and air infiltration is likely, and that all of these issues shoul...

I thought that this thread might be the likely place to give you Wright Chatters an update on Laurie Virr. I have had the pleasure of visiting with Laurie weekly via Skype for a number of years. Laurie has now been transferred to a physical rehab hospital after two weeks in hospital due to a fall. ...

Enjoyed seeing the long-distance photo which shows the concrete stairway to the second floor. I must have been up and down that stairway a dozen times. Wonder who "Melanie" was, too. Her name is forever immortalized on the terrace floor. You have to wonder what the City of Phoenix might have done ha...

Interesting little cottage. When you say the location will be Northern Ontario ...how far north do you mean ...Moosonee, Fort Albany, Winisk, or even Fort Severn, or perhaps a bit farther south?... Like, say, Kapuskasing or Pickle Crow? Whatever the case, my first question is .... Other than a pelle...

‘There’s a Real Climate of Fear’: Students and Former Staff Speak Out About the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s CEO David The truth eventually comes out. Now we know where the problem started. The FLWF Board knew about the problem and chose to ignore it hoping it would improve. 20 people fired or d...