Wright Chat

You're right, the tv over the fireplace is the worst. The competing energies being forced to peacefully coexist... But there is that problem when the tv is in the same room as the fireplace, then seating arrangements inevitably end up accommodating the winner of the battle, the TV! We have no cable,...

dkkottum- I must respectfully disagree with your comment in regards to the automobile. Los Angeles has had the worst air pollution in the U.S. not from industry but primarily from automobiles commuting back and forth from their detached single family homes. Granted, with more decentralization, ala B...

Then we should go with Mr. Morris' intentions and not the Gephard guide.

Griffith Park it is...

Ha- That's a good question... We actually are now beginning the research phase of the fireplace restoration at Lamberson. There is a hideous black and brass gas insert to be removed, but we will keep the gas line for options down the line. Then we will need to remove the extra brick facing which was...

Just to clarify: The Griffith Park apartments (1966) are called the Landa Apartments...

Roderick-

Do you know which house in Cincinnatti? What type of grille is this?

We have a brick fireplace here in our 1949 Altadena house, (somewhat Wrightian... raked horizontal, flush vertical mortar joints) and we enjoy it for its heat and the experience. But the reality, at least in Los Angeles, and I think California as a whole, is that because of our poor air quality, the...

Beautiful! One correction, however; the apartments shown at the bottom are not at Griffith Park, but rather Echo Park. This is the building (Clinton St.) that I shared as a link in my previous post on this thread. Also, I think it is not quite fair to judge the success of the Oakhurst house from the...

Inspired by SDR's comments on code thread If we assume two givens: 1) that for Frank Lloyd Wright, the psychological and spiritual center of the home was the fireplace and hearth... 2) that our present situation (carbon emissions, global warming, diminishing renewable resources, etc.) requires that ...

Great idea, and something that I have been thinking about often recently...

Morris is one of the best, but least well known architects of the late twentieth century. At a time time when the international style dominated, he was continuing the ideas of Wright and Schindler. This house exhibits some of his typical design features: the crisp geometric fenestration, imaginative...

Well, judging from the success of the Klein Bottle House, their motto at the building department of "We will soon stop that" never came to fruition, and you clearly were victorious! You deserve to be proud of your resistance to the status quo, and possibly helping to pave the way for archi...

Laurie- After what you have described, I find it hard to believe that this extremely complex award winning Australian house ever made it through your broken down code system. The Klein Bottle House of 2009: http://freshome.com/2009/11/06/the-klein-bottle-house-world-architecture-festivals-home-of-th...

Good one, Jim...

Good point. We must remember that this is a post modern viewing of modernism. The reality was much different. Progressive adventurous families were often the clients, not egomaniacal bachelor bad guys. That's what is nice about the Tati films. Modernism being used by a wide variety of social classes...