Wright Chat

It's a beautiful design of course. I was imagining Mr and Mrs Jacobs pushing wheel barrows around full of large boulders and handing them up to each other on the scaffolding they had built.

....well wait. Did they do all that stone in the second house?!

He told them they could build much of it themselves! hahahahahahahahahahahaha...

I have no idea what's going on in that roof. The "ceiling joists" ...I've seen this before in Japanese architecture. They may serve to hold the joints of the ceiling boards tight. I don't know. I would not think that the ceiling boards themselves are discontinuous and that the "ceilin...

All right! We're going to get a set of HABS drawings from this. Fantastic. Hope they document it thoroughly: ROOF FRAMING PLAN. ....pretty please? Oh man, just think of the sections.

Had not noticed the little piece of building in that shot. I agree, nice touch.

Three nice shots of the Guggenheim:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diorama_sk ... otostream/

I've forgotten about this.
I did email them once.
No reply.

Thanks guys, very helpful, much appreciated.

Wright in Hollywood , page 154, figure 156 This is a section through the rooms and terraces. Somehow I would have thought that the building would have been dug in to the side of the hill. This is not the case as the section shows. What is the thinking here? Economy: no excavation; ventilation; visu...

Very interesting, another son of Presbyterian clergy (like the Dulles bros.) and missionaries to China no less. ... and he had a home in Phoenix. Shame he didn't have Wright do it.

(Pardon another tangent: what was Wright's relationship with Henry Luce? I seem to remember seeing something related to him inside the living room of TWest.)

They discount it because of the missing head.

First time I think I've noticed that the ceiling is not wood. Funny.
Wonder how the heat works through the carpet?

Hmm, never even considered that. ...

Scrolling thru a Sullivan set on Flickr. Rotated squares all over the place, always symmetrical however. Prototypes of Wright textile block all over the place too. Keep forgetting about Sullivans influence. Huge.