Wright Chat

Kevin, we wish you all the luck in the world---wherever you may reside. But if you should land in the lap of luxury at the Fawcett "farmhouse," expect to be bothered occasionally by some city dweller looking for a cool dip . . .!

SDR

https://savewright.org/building/keland- ... the-market

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What a thorough delight ! The many photos of Lynn Hall in its early years, and the young architect's plans of his father's building as adapted to his own use, are highlights of the 1964-72 portfolio that illustrates and annotates---in his own colorful writing---Ray Viner Hall's career. Perhaps the m...

Suzanne, the email contact utility is not active, so I've sent you a Wright Chat Private Message. Thanks for posting. The property book contains wonderful photos of the house---and Milton Stricker's name is spelled correctly on many of its pages. We all hope that this home will become the property o...

That is shocking and disreputable at the least. Empire's faults are well known or should be (and America has been the pre-eminent world empire---democracy or not---following the second world war, overtaken it seems by China at present ?) but that does not mean we still need to trash Great Britain in...

As I am fond of saying, every follower of Wright who designed and built has found something new to bring to the recipe of a Wrightian building. We don't see enough drawings and photos of Hall's work to provide a complete picture of his practice, but one novel detail is immediately apparent: a mixtur...

We understand that the Mathews house may have a new owner; its last asking price was seven million.

There's one born every minute ? A potential Wright savior, that is . . .!

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Mr Wright was probably pleased to arrive, less than two decades later, at a new place in his work, one that grew nearer to his ideals of structural and aesthetic unity. I'm thinking of Fallingwater. Here there is virtually no extraneous decoration; the window glass is clear and is simply and orthogo...

Heh. As a designer I can say that the usual sequence is from large to small; nothing special in Wright, there. But we like to think (because he liked to say) that the whole was echoed in its parts, faithfully and as if by some special magic. Maybe yes, maybe no. If the parts were truly a fractal-lik...

Well said---as usual. I suppose I have reached the point where the (ac)counting of angels dancing on the head of a pin no longer moves me as it might once have done. There is surely no shortage of interpretations of Wright's art. What I suppose we could use more of are new and more accessible ways o...

All well and good. But Wright's architecture is not---cannot be---unique as to its temporal qualities, as every building larger than an outhouse or a tool shed---or a bare-bones warehouse or barn---is and must be experienced moment by moments as one moves into and through it. Beyond that, it may ver...

Of course. And the same might be said of the exterior appearance of his buildings as a whole, which was I am certain equally as important to him as was the interior spaces. There is ample evidence of that, at any stage in his career; the carefully studied and made presentation perspectives are one p...

Heh. Well, thanks for that chance to be caught up on the Prince's ins and outs as an architecture critic and "meddler.' I hadn't been aware, for example, that the late Sir Richard Rogers had complained of losing three opportunities to build as a direct result of Charles's interference. Let us h...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3-Ridgewood-Ln-Forrest-City-AR-72335/90934521_zpid/?fbclid=IwAR2YfaYk_9L_1T5UYrl-pRGFsXdb3Jlul2CXZvKg59coL_tBVpWcbINcL6Y As a corrective to the disappointing Edmondson house, this one is spectacular, offering a variety of living spaces that seems to outdo any other...