Wright Chat

Bob's house is a 4'-0" X 4'-0" grid.

Greetings Wrightians, It has been quite a while since I have posted any progress on the Beharka house. We have been there 9 years now. Most of exterior wood has been sanded and treated, Recent projects have included fixing the water intrusion problem at the sills under the tall windows, and my Calif...

Wouldn't it be more in the spirit of an organic architecture and sustainability to research and plant what is native to your region? Most bamboo is horribly invasive and requires a lot of water.

Correct. Marden is not a hemicycle. The curved patio gives the illusion in plan.

I sit on the terrace in a bathrobe with a shotgun...any Architectural lookie lous are met with.."Go on now..GIT!"

Such a lovely home..not much more is needed in life than that.

"Tree" lamp? Has anyone ever read where Wright referred it as that? The pendant version was referred to as the "stalact-light" at least by some apprentices..an abstraction of the ice formations that hang from caves. So, would the floor version be the "stalag-light"..

Instead of symmetry, wouldn't this be more of a discussion of massing and proportions?

Landscaping for a an organic, integral approach to an organic Architecture still never seems to be resolved. Granted, home owner associations, planners etc don't really give a damn what is really appropriate. If the concept of planting what is or was native to your region, much could be done to help...

In Architecture, symmetry is a forced predetermined thing. When designing from the inside out, having the program be your guide, I can't see how the result on the exterior could be symmetrical organically without desiring it to be that way from the beginning.

One of those things that looks really cool on the drawn floor and roof plan sheets..

In the short time Stan's site has been live, it has over 4,400 members. The topics range from newbie posts to expert analysis. I post there frequently, pretty much the whole Beharka house restoration is documented there. I also tend to steer the collective bus off the road when I feel things are get...

I find myself spending a fraction of time on this site than I used to. I have found other sites, such as Stan's site on FB to be quite a bit livelier, and much much easier to post photos.

This site, while of great value is kind of like 8-track technology in an iPhone world.
My 2 cents.

Looks similar to some of Ling Po's designs. Simple, almost austere, but elegant.

It is the template for the bowl portion of the prairie planter, square with the shallow bowl in the center. Base will have to be recreated. It is for lightweight concrete, poured in form, swivel mechanism shapes underside.
Got it..made an offer and was accepted. Picking it u tomorrow