Wright Chat

Thanks Michael for sharing your pics. Was Schindler with Wright in 1924? The wrapped parallel patterning of the wood shingles, siding and trim "feel" Schindler-esqe. My only criticism with the built product as shown would be that the conversion of the tall skinny sidelights next to the fre...

rigejo511:
I would be very interested in seeing scans of the construction drawings for the house.

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rigejo511 wrote: I showed both the presentation drawing as well as two photocopies of the blueprints in my lecture at the Glen Ellyn Historical Society last Saturday.... The presentation drawing for the Heald house online along with all the photocopied plans which were taken from the original bluepr...

Thanks for posting this, David. I had never seen the construction photos before, and I had not known that Wright had visited the site few times. It would have been great to be party to Wright's comments as he walked the site...what would have interested him, what tweaks he may have made, any wry com...

Is it known what became of Gene Masselink's icon paintings?

At least the original iconostasis frame is still in use. My only real criticism is the cross added to the top of the dome...architecturally speaking, it looks unnecessary and has the feel of a tacked-on bauble.

dtc: Thanks for your input, it would seem the same principles are at work. The Sweeton windows were almost frosted with dust, dirt, and cobwebs when we started. The bird strikes began when we cleaned the windows, and became more frequent when brush and overgrowth was removed. The SanFran Planning do...

Can any Chicagoland Chatters attend this talk being given on Saturday October 22, 2011, about the Heald house by one of the "Rediscovering Wright" Team?

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/winfield/ ... r-Saturday

Thank you all for your suggestions...I'll read the SF Planning document to learn what I can.
I'll keep you posted...I have a feeling this will be a trial and error kind of thing.

We have been having a problem with bird strikes at the Sweeton house that seems to be pretty consistent and disturbing: a strike every other week with a fatality every fourth or fifth strike. We aren't sure if the issue is the reflections on the glass, or if the birds are seeing through the house an...

Congratulations Paul and Sandy!
To live in a freshly restored Drummond house, with Walter Burley Griffin houses practically on your doorstep, all in a walkable neighborhood...sounds like the perfect choice.

Looks like a fussy imitation of Fiestaware....I'll stick with the Fiestaware.

Laurie Virr wrote: The human race uses geometry to make sense of what otherwise would be an environment of chaos. Laurie speaks volumes with this single sentence. It is the reason Deconstructivist architecture is so unsettling to many people. Even in Bruce Goff's most free form works, there was an u...

The interior of the duplex is neat...the approach sequence makes it. The following is a link to William Morgan's website: http://www.williammorganarchitects.com/ My parents rented a condo in a William Morgan building in Ocean City, MD when I was in my teens, it reminded me of a Corbusian sand castle...

dtc wrote: Are the floor boards running in the opposite direction of the finished living room pic from the before pic? Comparing the before and after pics, it would appear that a later floor was removed in the restoration that was at 90 degrees to the original. In the before pic there is a shadow li...

SDR wrote: it's certainly possible to see Taliesin as having no particular style, and it's quite reasonable to see it as "just what he wanted for himself." When I look at Taliesin, particularly Taliesin I, I don't see prairie, or modern, or Wright building on his achievements of the previo...