Wright Chat

It's hard to imagine a less Wrightian landscape scheme, isn't it ? Plop. The only other stair this daunting in Wright's canon would be Pauson, which was part of an ordered and composed sequence. Wright often would incorporate a material used on the house to the stair or retaining walls to integrate...

Please see this link to page 9 of the Ross house thread: http://www.savewright.org/wright_chat/viewtopic.php?t=4594&start=120 scroll down to 12th and 13th entries. I asked outside in (Mr. Eifler) to post information relative to how the Ross house drawings are paginated and titled. If you scroll ...

outside in: In the increasingly painful Heald house thread, there has been some discussion about title blocks and drawing sheet pagination relative to construction drawings of the era. Might it be possible for you to post uncropped scans of the Ross house construction drawing sheets or, at least to ...

rigejo511: You have not presented any letters, records, documents, plans or historical material that has even suggested that Harry Robinson was the architect. How was it possible that Robinson could have been given such credit posthumously? Where in anything I have posted, do you deduce that I am ad...

The transcript indicates Wright had involvement with a commission that was McArthur's...I'll leave it to more learned people than me to hash out who did what on the Biltmore. This still does not establish authorship of the Heald house...or does it establish that Wright was not above working collabor...

rigejo511 wrote: However, the copies that I sent to you were not construction drawings. I was under the impression that the two plan sheets were construction drawings...they appear quite complete. It would be very unusual for an architect to go the level of dimensioning and noting present on the two...

rigejo511 wrote: I can't help but wonder if the Arizona Biltmore Hotel has Wright's name on the construction drawings. It doesn't. Albert Chase McArthur was the architect...Wright was his paid consultant relative to textile blocks. Wright had influence on the design in parts, but the overall concept...

The transcript seems to present two ideas: 1. FLLW, FLLW Jr, and Taylor Woolley were the sole delineators of the Wasmuth Portfolio plates. 2. FLLW did not allow those who worked for/with him to initial or otherwise mark a drawing to indicate who drafted it. The inference is that Wright wanted no one...

I was forwarded the drawings to review on the condition that I not copy or transmit them in any way.

After SDR's last post I felt the need to jump back in... Via email from Mr. Johnson, I have seen a presentation sheet which included a rendered perspective viewed from downhill looking to the covered terrace (the glass enclosure is not original), with two small scale floor plans. I have also seen th...

A drive-by architectural tourist once asked if the house in the lawn I was mowing was, "built by Floyd Wright?". The best one was the guy and his wife who asked me, while standing on my porch, "...where the house Frank Wright built was?". I replied I didn't know of any houses bui...

Paul, in the immortal words of the architect of your house per the official appraiser's official quote in his official document...

"Well, there you go!"

Thanks for posting this Chuck. This sounds intriguing, I'd love to attend, but I can't. My wife and I own Wright's 1950 Sweeton house in NJ which is also a single wythe CMU house. Might I ask some questions? Your description indicates that the foam is injected from the base of the wall and fills to ...

Bob Vila sure is tactile guy...I think the only thing he didn't touch was the gilt Japanese screen, though I'm sure he was tempted. What I want see is Norm Abram do a Wright tour, preferably at my house...I'm sure before he left there would be a "measured drawing" and a few built versions ...

SDR wrote: The special blocks, if that's what they are, that recreate the lower portion of the FSC model, are indeed impressive. I suspect the perforated blocks of the Pfeiffer Chapel model are made with standard pieces....by staggered stacking of 5 nub, 3 nub, 5 nub, thin bricks, and a 1 nub thin b...