Wright Chat

Mr. Virr, It seems like it's high time you organized your bothers and sisters in your profession and fight the noble battle of bringing your outdated ordinances and uneducated bureaucracy into the 21st century. I see much radical experimentation here in California where we have some of the strictest...

"Mon Oncle" is definitely next on my Netflix list...

I have heard that rats can chew right through Romex. Any truth to this?

Just as an irrelevant side note, I played guitar on the score to Life as a House. Kevin Kline's character builds/restores a craftsman cottage on the beach... Wrightgeek- I suppose that "important" is very subjective. In some films, there are amazing locations, and other films deal more wit...

I am compiling a list of the most important films which touch on the subject of architecture, directly or indirectly. These are in no particular order and are mostly fictions in which architecture plays a major role. Documentaries are included as well. Netflix is calling... Please feel free to add t...

Thanks Palli for the defense (though it needs none...) of the fine cinematic tradition of the French. By the way, are there any American or British movies which come to mind which critique/satire modernism or architecture in general? If so, please let me know, because I would love to watch them. The...

Laurie, With all due respect, I would think that a few things might need to be added to your statement: "Structural sufficiency is that to which the influence of codes should be limited." What about energy efficiency? Toxic materials? Needless blocking of another's views? Setback requireme...

In light of the two major earthquakes which have struck in the last week, one in Japan and now the massive 8.8 in Chile (at least one hundred times more powerful than Haiti!!!), I am thankful for the strong seismic codes which we have in California. There will be far fewer casualties in Chile compar...

Roderick- Did you see the same film that I did? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Time http://www.refgrafika.com/blogo/2005_01_playtime.jpg The entire audience, almost exclusively Americans, many architecture fans (the event was sponsored by Deasy Penner Partners, architectural real estate) were roa...

Last night I attended a screening of the the most recent reconstructed version of Jacques Tati's "Playtime" (1967), and thoroughly enjoyed it. For those of you who haven't experienced this joyful, hilarious critique of modernity, and the International Style in particular, I would have to s...

Yes, in fact, it's "cozy"... And especially seated at Wright's dining tables (some as low as 27") and chairs, one begins to truly appreciate the scale of the spaces.

Sorry, Bazett it is!

The radiant floor heating in Eichlers was especially important due to the fact that though there were a number of efficient floorplans which were employed, not all were necessarily taking full advantage of solar gain. One house might receive southern sun in the winter, and an identical floorplan in ...

This helps enormously. Thank you, SDR. So what we know is that there was floor heating at the Imperial Hotel, but only an electric type in the bathrooms. Wright had intended to use it at Nakoma and the Johnson Administration building, but the first application of his "gravity heating" was ...

Thank you for a reasonable and nuanced response to this thread. Building codes have saved many lives...