Wright Chat

Edgar notes in his book that the trees intended for the west terrace "did not survive the rigors of construction".

This may not help your situation, but when I built my house the site was downhill of a not too steep wooded slope. The local who did my excavation told me considering the rainy season and soil conditions there'd be sheets of water trying to reach a ravine that I intentionally placed the house near (...

My favorite Bohlin Cywinski houses are those from the earlier years: The "Pacific Rim Estate" happens to be Bill Gates' place... in collaboration with Cutler-Anderson Architects. The Henry Island house looks really familiar, and might have worked on... and if you ever come across Steve Miller's pla...

The vertical mullion revision is quite obvious in the photo... but looking at both elevation drawings, somewhere along the way the wraparound horizontal mullion above the doors was relocated upward more or less level with the top of the second floor balcony on the Southwest elevation, which increase...

Per "An American Proceeding" , Donna Grant Reilly... During the second year of occupancy, a strong windstorm took out one of the two mitered glass corners of the living room; each corner included one eight foot square section. Apparently everyone but Wright thought the sections were too large, espec...

The new color palette is attractive and reminiscent of Willits. Humor me regarding an observation regarding the piers flanking the living room and "Own (?) Room" above it, and plan, as pointed out by SDR... and an arguably mis-applied trim feature. Whenever seeing a Wright "disappearing corner" I'm ...

The primary (and SDR's secondary?)cantilevers appear to support a load encompassing the entire pool footprint. Even if they were only supporting their own weight, both are the reverse of "Cantilevers 101" ratio: 2/3 embedment to 1/3 exposed. Regardless of material, the beam lengths surpass those of ...

Another early work (1960) on Wright would of course be Scully's contribution to the Masters of World Architecture series. Noteworthy for inclusion of reference photos of everything from various ruins (Crete, Malta, Hadrians villa), paintings by Braque, Cezanne, and Mondrian, to works of Palladio, Ri...

Stayed there on one of my first Taliesin trips... no need to criticize nor say too much about.
I suppose Wright offered encouragement, but "supervised"?

Typical vendor prices for Robie planter: Small/30" square/$1130, Medium/45" square/$1764, Large/60" square/$3084

Neils is entered similarly through the bedroom wing, although a much grander composition... does "Usonian" even apply to this, or others such as Gillin?

I thought the lines defining the corner of that exterior balcony looked unnatural, so that explains it. As far as the situation at the end wall, I'm not sure even Howe (without Photoshop) could have altered things beyond those windows. But I might have solved the location issue-or at least have come...

The apartment is located toward the end of the original exterior balcony alongside the hayloft and overlooking the work court. Not 100% certain, but this would appear to be the same location as John Howe's room as seen in contemporaneous photo's. The detailing and decor were more akin to an early Ta...

Roderick Grant wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:47 pm

For some reason, too far back in history to recall, I ended up with 21 copies of that issue. I suppose I should unload them somehow.

hmmm... when getting mine, I do recall thinking one would do!

Stephan, the first pdf link mentions "reconstituted" stone (?)