Wright Chat

Sling chairs seem to have been attractive to designers through history. Thomas Jefferson had them at Monticello and Poplar Forest...see this link: http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/23573/thomas-jeffersons-campeche-chair If you visit Jefferson's Poplar Forest house, there is a reproduction chair av...

I've always questioned the logic of the rubber inflatable house. How would the following be addressed: ...rubber odor? ...fumes and smoke developed if a fire were to start within house? ...durability of windows? (plastic convertible top windows scratch so easily) ...heat loss/gain? ...air quality? (...

True, Robie is an early example of brick levitation in Wright's portfolio. I guess my point was that Wright's inclusion of a piece of stone, cast stone, or slab edge, at the base of a run of brick such as this was more successful visually than the detail seen at Mossberg and Price where the bottom c...

pmahoney's citing the Schultz house poses an interesting question: Does the insertion of a strip of concrete at the base of the Schultz balconies change our visual perception of the brick balustrade on a cantilevered balcony? A similar version of this detail was used extensively at the Johnson Wax c...

The FLLW entry for the Milwaukee competition is interesting in that it superficially appears to be a textbook Beaux-Arts composition from Wright's hand. But if one looks carefully, and has some familiarity with the rules of classicist architecture, it is clear Wright "broke" rules. For exa...

The Haldorn project is a great unbuilt concept, and one I wish had been built, though my memory of the plans is that the house would have been odd to live in day to day, due to idiosyncratic room/function organization. The site plan was the big idea of it all, and given the dramatic sloping site to ...

The stair to the stream at Fallingwater comes to mind as a rare exception to this idea, but its presence is more compositional than practical as it visually ties the house to the stream, and lends purpose to the hatch which otherwise is a cool air scoop. I might add though that the stairs at Falling...

See the following page that was linked in an email I received this AM from the National Trust for Historic Preservation: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2011/november-december/site-seeing.html#PL It would appear that the Pope house is on the cover of their mag, and the following is noted ...

I'm speechless.

Thanks for posting links to your Flickr threads. The pictures of your Beharka house are stunning. I see the balcony projecting through the window wall as an expression of the glass as a non-solid screen or scrim. Reflections on the glass during the day give the material a solid appearance, but the l...

The Sweeton house was originally designed for the domestic water to be heated by the radiant heat boiler (my father's house operated similarly). At some point in the '70's, the system was altered to have a separate water heater (also oil fired). The benefit of this was the burner for the separate wa...

Welcome back peterm. The Sweeton house has a Buderus G215: http://www.buderus.us/products/oilheating/oilconventional/loganog215.html that was installed 9 years ago. It was originally fueled with oil, but when we switched to natural gas, I consulted a mechanical engineer and the boiler manufacturer, ...

rigejo511 wrote: SDR, I can't comment about similarities between John Lloyd Wright's first commission in California and the William Heald house. In the documentation for the Heald commission, John was never mentioned as being a contributor to the design of the house. I believe intent SDR's post was ...

rigejo511 wrote:

...would you believe that William Heald built these stairs?

I think I would. My earlier comment on the stairs was not intended to point out the similarities so much as it was to point out the contrasts.

Jeff Myers, are you and yours ok in OK?

Anyone know how the Goff and Wright buildings fared in the quake?