Wright Chat

A Frank Lloyd Wright Bomb Shelter - new one for me.

Cool idea.
These are interesting and helpful.

Encore:
"In Matters of Design the Dialectic Applied"

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/01/arch ... plied.html

congratulations

Very hard to tell, it's true.

I disagree.
I think it's a structural diagram rendered to look like lights and shadows.

Yeah lights,
but does;t the pattern over the theater look like
some kind of cable stayed structure.
It seems like structural concepts are being used
to simulate light patterns

yeah RG, but we all know it's really the D-evil

I've alwys assumed the crown of rays at top and on the right were lights at night. and according to the section the outer roof frame is uplit. But re-looking it seems they might be some type of permanent install - especially over the main block theater wing. Maybe just some kind of graphic experimen...

It;s gorgeous.

Did you see this?
Check out what they pull theirs with:
1996 Ford F-350 XLT
(7.3L Turbo Diesel V8 Power Stroke (12 MPG))
http://www.thedemocratictravelers.com

it's funny, sort of ...
an amputaed column ?
Anyway - I'd never seen this building before.
Proto-PoMo

"more light..." okay, and yet the amount of light is fixed by the eave, the piers, and the spandrel sill height. Moving the glass back and forth does not change that. The quantity that changes is the room area and volume. It's a picky point but that's why I said what I said. BTW, "mor...

At least that’s what it seems like judging from the HABS B&W.
Seems like the spandrel was pushed forward
Maybe outboard of piers
Maybe flush
Don’t see how that would bring in more light in any case

Okay,
So the alteration is that the horizontal “spandrel� between the vertical piers
was extended beyond the plane of the piers
Right?
The planter became an interior shelf or something

I had not realized either that the Martins altered the building.
Looks like the HABS B&W shot posted by lastchancesugarco is of original condition prior to Martin alteration.
I'm not sure we've seen a shot of the Martin alteration.
Hard to understand from the Martin House Website description too.