Wright Chat

Enjoyed seeing the long-distance photo which shows the concrete stairway to the second floor. I must have been up and down that stairway a dozen times. Wonder who "Melanie" was, too. Her name is forever immortalized on the terrace floor. You have to wonder what the City of Phoenix might have done ha...

Interesting little cottage. When you say the location will be Northern Ontario ...how far north do you mean ...Moosonee, Fort Albany, Winisk, or even Fort Severn, or perhaps a bit farther south?... Like, say, Kapuskasing or Pickle Crow? Whatever the case, my first question is .... Other than a pelle...

‘There’s a Real Climate of Fear’: Students and Former Staff Speak Out About the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s CEO David The truth eventually comes out. Now we know where the problem started. The FLWF Board knew about the problem and chose to ignore it hoping it would improve. 20 people fired or d...

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Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:35 pm

The Red Roof shelter - (7:54) David

Designed by apprentice Thomas (Frederick)Bingham (1947-2007). In residence from 1968 to 1971

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The Taliesin product---the drawings, and the building they represent---are exceptional in so many ways . . . http://sdrdesign.com/MansonMono1.jpg Yes, the top perspective was undoubtedly drawn by Howe, or most likely by an apprentice, but ALL of the trees and shrubbery were quickly sketched in by F...

Tour of the Davison Apartment - (11:18) David Rather disappointed in the Davison apartment "tour". Can't understand why it was rushed, though work wasn't finished ... and one room was passed by, completely, because it was piled high with furniture ... furniture that might have made the appearance o...

God help us. The Christmas lights on the ceiling of the Cabaret Theatre look as though they were put there by a drunken sailor.

Wes and Mendel weren't the only ones sometimes in the hot seat concerning structural design. One day at the entrance to the Hillside Draughting Room, Wes and I were chatting about something or other ... when he suddenly lit into Mr.Wright's structural understanding of "wood". He didn't go into much ...

While that message from Sullivan meshes nicely with, and leads to, his admonition that "form follows function" . . . it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that the idea that the solution to a problem is inherent is probably ancient. I am no scholar of the classics and cannot cite an example---but ...

.Considering these circumstances, I suggested to Jim that the new structure necessary to build his court would allow for a home office to be built underneath it. Since then, other programmatic requirements have organicaly arisen over time and they have been incorporated. The designs have been insti...

Aha---so they are. Three piers. What would Wright do ? The obvious---for him: bring the glass to the piers, float the doors within the openings, and the piers appear both inside and out. That's what you're thinking ? The piers (assuming they're vital) would have their axes countering the plane of t...

Never heard of the Glass House before. Could kick myself for not buying the Taschen volumes when they were affordable. Can't make out the note about the steel mullions between the panels. Would love to see a construction detail where the mullions meet the roof. One item I've not seen mentioned is t...

More than good, I'd say; it's just about perfect. One fault can be seen in photo 12: between the two pairs of sliders is a foot or more of solid wall, roughly opposite the chimney mass. That piece of solid works to sap the strength of that important opening. Wright would have made this wide opening...

I live in the direct path of the cop copters, which fly in groups of 3 way too low. Copters of all kinds, along with commercial planes from every direction, fly over my house, on a daily basis, but the real challenge is becoming accustomed to the noise of F-35A fighters ... headed to and from the B...

Per Google, Cordes Lakes, an exurb, seems to be sneaking up on Arcosanti from the south. T-West started out several miles north of Scottsdale, and is now in the southern half of the city; do you suppose the same fate awaits Arcosanti? SDR, according to Wikipedia, Cosanti was Soleri's residence, whi...