Wright Chat

Address is/was 910 Hastings Street Park Ridge. I'm not so sure the house was demolished...a look on Google Earth and Google Maps street view shows the house Prairie Mod references, but in the street view, the angled brick chimney is still visible and from Google earth the plan seems like Goff's thou...

My wife and I attended a New Year's Eve party at the home of a non-architect friend of mine from my college years. Just as we entered our host's house, our host greeted us with "I have something for you." I was handed a large plastic bag that contained six yellowed 16"x20" Strath...

SDR wrote: One man's crudity is another's "honesty." Exposed end grain may not have been a part of Wright's vocabulary, but it has the oldest history in all of woodworking -- self-evidently. Ask George Nakashima (for instance) to veneer or miter the ends of his magnificent tables . . . ! W...

I think Griffin left Wright's studio in 1906 after Wright returned from his visit to Japan. Not sure of Marion's departure date, but I thought she was with Wright's studio during Wright's European sojourn.

Interesting piece, thanks for sharing it Wrightgeek. I'm sure I read, but was not actually cognizant that Wright's commissions for Browne's Books, Thurber Gallery, and Mori Gallery were all in the same building...a building that is still standing. Is it just me, or does the leaded glass window purpo...

ALove: My apologies if my earlier comments were taken as unsympathetic or insensitive. I am sorry to hear of your recent loss of your home and I am saddened to learn that the Bavingers felt they had no other choice but to dismantle their home which I am sure was a touchstone in their lives, no pun i...

Whitney R. Smith of Case Study House fame designed a Unitarian Church in Pasadena adjacent to Greene & Greene's Cole and Gamble houses. Oscar Stonorov designed a lamella dome sanctuary building for the Unitarian Church in Cherry Hill, NJ. It was lost to a fire in the early 2000's. First Unitaria...

The house attributed to Wes Peters was established in an earlier thread to have been designed by Allen Lape Davision for a Hammond Organ executive named Sorensen.

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Thanks for posting this David. I must find my way to CA to see Wright, Schindler, Neutra, and the Greenes. I recently read that the Gambles met the the brothers Greene just after they purchased their lot; apparently the Greenes had a house under construction for a client named Cole on an adjacent lo...

I continue to be amazed at Floyd Wright's mastery of architectonic detail...notice his subtle recognition, utilization, and dare I say, celebration of the 4'x8' module of plywood in his, er, elegant cornice, or as this realtor might say, "cornish". A bit steep at $150,000.00, but truly a b...

See the architectural firm's website here: http://www.bcdm.net/portfolio-page_religious_catholic_holy-family-shrine/ and scroll through the pics. The concept of making a chapel in the spirit of Jones was not at all inappropriate given the site. My problem with the design is that the chapel works ver...

ALove: If the effort being expended to disassemble the house was put into actual restoration (physical repairs, stabilization, and/or reaching out to concerned individuals with an interest in Goff's art), we would not be having this conversation. I have never met the Bavinger's, but it should not be...

A complete lack of understanding of Jones' "part to whole" relationship of the micro to the macro of the composition. This building is "parts to parts"... void of Jones' harmonious unity.

Whilst flipping through a Taschen book from my father's collection about Arts and Architecture Magazine's Case Study House Program, I was struck by house #5 by Whitney R. Smith. The house was published in the April 1946 issue of the mag, not built, and showed a remarkable sensitivity to the principl...

...she said, among other things, that her husband couldn't hang his pants full length in the hall closets...

"Anyone taller than 6 feet is a weed." -FLLW

"Mr. Stephenson must not have been the Wright size." -attributed to a Borscht Belt sage