Wright Chat

November 1960 was the closely contested election between Nixon and Kennedy...

There was a second unrealized design for Goetsch and Winkler.

You all make brilliant points! I wholeheartedly agree with everything you have said. One other thing: scale... The original dining room appeared to be approximately one half the size of the living area. The new dining room (Huge!) lacks intimacy and the lonely table is positioned out in the middle o...

Back in olden days, when the Nookers owned the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio in Oak Park, the tour was a lot different than now, but certainly quite memorable! My friends and I arrived a few minutes before the tour was scheduled, and were met at the door by the cleaning lady with her hair tied...

No problem! How do we remember each and every thread? And the search feature on this site is not particularly user friendly.

Here is the original thread on this topic:

http://www.savewright.org/wright_chat/v ... et&start=0

I look forward to seeing where this idea goes from here. It is a great design... If it could go into production at a reasonable price, it seems that there would be a lot of interest.

http://www.taliesin.edu/pages/MODFAB.htm

This has to be one of the most cliched, cynical and least nuanced articles I have ever read. This writer needs to be reminded that in the first half of the 2oth century, different manners and habits necessitated these designs. Wright was certainly not alone in designing straight backed dining chairs...

I would think it could, but one would probably have to allow for at least an additional 6 inches or so to create the depth which is seen in the desert concrete. Much of the beauty is to be found in the uneven and somewhat ragged texture. If this were done on both sides, it might be quite a thick wall.

Thanks, Stephen. I have that book, too, and it is a bit unsettling to notice Wright's exclusion... According to the text, I guess the Beard house did not use hot water, but heated air under the concrete slab... This house is right around the corner from my place and I drive by often to drool. It rea...

It looks like Wright's first in floor radiant heat is the Imperial Hotel (finished 1923?...). Anything earlier? And what was the Imperial ground floor made of?

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Storer! That's interesting...

Of course, it's probably the California textile block house which first incorporate scored concrete floors. I'm now remembering the square grid at La Miniatura, ten years before Neutra's Beard house...

And the red concrete floor is also a coincidence?

It might be possible that Wright was already thinking about incorporating this concept in 1924 when Neutra met Wright (at louis sullivan's funeral!)... Neutra was in Wright's office between '24 and '26, and maybe the idea of red concrete floors was already being discussed at that time. Is Willey the...