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Roderick, is Wright's intended scheme for lighting the dining room documented and available somewhere?

Roderick, is Wright's intended scheme for lighting the dining room documented and available?

... yeah, and what about Ms Barnsdalls' hanging light above the dining room table!
YUCKY

You know - I assumed the two tone exterior was something like restoration in progress.
Is this somebody's idea of a permanent improvement?!

Nice - thank you.
The two tone exterior irritates me.

... so the underlying geometry of this building? Seems like there are basically two conceptual interlocking tapering faceted geometries. One seems to be the base plan four sided diamond shape. The other seems to be more obscure, in opposition to the the base plan and containing the elevators. The ba...

I'm pretty sure in 'A Testament' Wright claimed there would be "no sway" at the top floor because of his "tripod" construction. I liked the shot of the model posted by elevatorscene. This building is one I've never been able to fully comprehend - geometrically. Would love to see that model and bette...

Strikes me as highly experimental on the exterior.
Plan reminds me of Coonley.
Wonder what the interiors were like?

...oops
sorry about this duplicated post.
trying now to see if I can delete it

Strikes me as highly experimental on the exterior.
Plan reminds me of Coonley.
Wonder what the interiors were like?

Found this:
https://franklloydwright.org/preservati ... -taliesin/

Two questions:
Who is Davy Davison and are the photographs available to link to online?

Aaron Betsky is going to Virginia Tech as Director of their program.

I would like to see the arguments the Dreihaus group use to justify this proposal.
I don't see this group making this move without being very well prepared legally.
Anybody seen anything on this?
There must be something like a legal brief and position paper - no?

Surely Tugendhat (1928) must be considered at least one of the early uses of large architectural plate glass.
Villa Savoy is same time frame. The large plate glass of the sliding living room walls - another example.
I don't think Wright ever used plate glass like that.

Forgotten about this post and essay. thanks for calling it up. Interesting that the excerpt posted comes late in his life - in the 50's Would have thought earlier for something like that. But does indicate his commitment to the content of his work. (new format seems to be a big improvement - I will ...

Somehow my email notifications for WrightChat seemed to have stopped. Thought this thread had gone cold. Regarding Goodman's War and Peace Report (DN): the show has come under criticism within the past couple of years from long term listeners and also from former employees. I think the criticism beg...