Wright Chat

One must place the rifle vertically on the ground and stand over the muzzle or have extraordinarily long arms.

It was not uncommon for doctor prescribed medication to be taken at irregular times causing dosing issues or to have unintended or unexpected interactions with alcohol. A relative of mine accidentally died some years before I was born due to dosing or alcohol interaction issues. From what I have rea...

As a follow on to Roderick's comment about Kaufmann and Gill, and Gill's accuracy in writing (or storytelling?). From the February 17, 1990 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette p.21: Even though he was an historian, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. went to his grave at age 78 last year with family secrets, Brendan Gill writes...

Oy. Has anyone else noticed a shift in the pronunciation of the letter grouping "str" to what sounds like "shtr"? I first noticed it regionally in the Mid-Atlantic states, but it seems to be going national through media. I'm waiting for some 3rd or 4th grader to question a teache...

There may be something to the hypothesis Palli noted in her presentation at the FLWBC Conference presentation in Grand Rapids: that a generative idea that led to the perfs' graphic language may have been Wright's observing the shadow casting at the Taliesins. Though I doubt the myriad of actual perf...

Interesting. In the early 1990’s, computer science and mathematics researchers (at M.I.T.?) wrote software for early Macintosh computers that would generate Palladian plans and elevations based on some basic dimensional inputs. By analyzing Andrea Palladio’s work and the math of their ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming ... _Wisconsin

I’ve often heard and read of the vicinity being called the Wyoming Valley, but not the town of Wyoming.

Though the article notes the house dates from 1928, I suspect the house may have been altered later to have a Prairie-esque character. Given some bits of the outside forms: arched garage door, odd detailing of roof edge above garage, stair to main entrance, gabled projection off the rear facade, as ...

I suppose you are right that the "iconic" photo of Larkin simply deletes the electrical wires without alterations to the image. But, when one carefully studies it, the photo seems to be very carefully composed...notice the careful alignment of the ornamental fence with respect to features ...

The incident in the 1980’s reported by the woman in California comes close to or crosses the line of assault, if not attempted rape: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/arts/design/*.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ Eerily similar to the allegations made about Charlie Rose. Speaking of ...

Meryle Secrest is still with us; in her 80's. Do we believe if she took Gill's word without checking it, she (or her publishers, through whom she is contacted) will be open to discussing it?

It is not that can't accept that Wright's middle name may have changed, I doubt that it did, but it might have. What is driving all of this is that something so fundamental to a well known person's identity was posthumously given a starkly new facet by a writer who cites no historical reference to v...

Spring Green raises an interesting point... Wright's "An Autobiography", which admittedly has its share of "spin", spends the first 40 odd pages describing the history of his mother's side of the family. Relatively little is noted about the Wright side of the family. If Wright, w...

Spring Green's email reply: Dan has brought up a very good point and I agree with the problem. Gill gave the "Lincoln" assertion in "Many Masks" without any proof for that claim and it's filtered into the Wright world (just as Meryle Secrest's assertion that Wright's second wife ...

Do the impoverished rural or disaster struck masses for whom this is intended have the funds to purchase the 3D printer necessary to make this? Do they have adequate electricity in their locale to operate the printer, not just a suitcase sized photovoltaic panel capable of running a lantern or lap t...