Wright Chat

I would like to return again to my initial questions: Is Jacobs (1936) the first Wright house to employ radiant heating? I just found out that the Neutra Beard house in Altadena, Ca. of 1934 had red scored concrete floors with radiant heating. Is this a coincidence? I am more interested in the fact ...

Schindler, I suppose, was much to preoccupied with space, to waste precious resources on these sort of technical innovations. Gill certainly used the concrete floor slab. Was it heated or colored? "...His houses are known for minimal or flush mouldings, simple (or no) fireplace mantles, coved f...

The Willey house has red brick floors with no radiant heating. Instead, the house has wall radiators typical of the period.

Does anyone know of other architects who were experimenting with floor heating in the early 1930s?
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Is Jacobs (1936) the first Wright house to employ radiant heating? I just found out that the Neutra Beard house in Altadena, Ca. of 1934 had red scored concrete floors with radiant heating. Is this a coincidence?

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/ ... ardage.jpg

Mobius wrote:I use 4 PCs and 2 Macs.

What is the nature of your work that requires six computers?

When compared to his peers, Wright's use of stone is by far the most heroic, whether it be at Fallingwater or Taliesin West. He comes the closest to revealing the qualities of the material itself in its original natural state.

Other modernists used simpler and much more practical substitutions, either traditional stone walls or flagstone applied as a veneer to the surface of a concrete or cinder block wall. Of course, this latter solution would go against Wright's ideas about building: that the decoration must be a part o...

Both being very important in the history of our nation...

Thanks, Jeff, though I am still struggling with it...

The first house is the Willey house photographed very recently this winter. I also just added a photo of the same house in the summer with wisteria growing taken in the 1960s. I assume that the plant is no longer growing there...

Well, my first attempt at posting photos began about an hour and a half ago, and I finally have something to show for the effort. These were passed on to me from Stafford Norris showing the "trellis" and snow accumulating by the french doors. There is also a photo of the Pope house with wi...

Without looking carefully at the plans, I would assume that the "open trellis" was used in situations where a window or door wall would be oriented in a direction other than south; that is, where the summer sun would not overheat the space, but where Wright wanted the spatial feeling of ex...

I started with a PC; Mac for the last five years, and would not go back...

Taliesin Red,

Did you mean Howard's Feed n Wax, not Thompson's Feen n Wax?

Though the novel Loving Frank by Nancy Horan is fiction, it is a historical fiction nonetheless. In the book there are references to Carlton working in the garden, as well as cooking and serving food. I just finished the novel, and found that I needed to return to these photos of early Taliesin life.

Thanks Roderick.

I still am curious how many others become frustrated with the search feature.

Maybe an update could be made?