Wright Chat

If SDR applies, I will apply also. If accepted it would be an honor to be in a design studio with his incredible reservoir of knowledge on all things Wright. Plus women dig guys with huge Frank Lloyd Wright libraries.

Fantastic, I wish them the best. Gaines and Sharon Hall were wonderful stewards of the house.

Rather than a school of architecture, they should offer 3 month fellowships to talented registered architects in a highly selective process. Charge tuition so that the program makes sense financially. Hire great architects sympathetic to ideals of FLW from around the world to lead the design studios...

They should do a capital campaign after they jettison the school of architecture and come up with sound business plan to balance costs and income. They need to salvage their credibility first, assemble a respected national board of directors, and exercise sound leadership before doing the capital ca...

I cannot believe how grossly incompetent the leadership of the The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has proven to be for a period of decades. The current financial mess did not happen overnight. Why would they make financial decisions that would jeopardize the core of his legacy that he cared so much a...

The archives are much more critical to the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright than the school. Unfortunately if one of those two has to be jettisoned, let it be the school. It is what Frank would have done. Unfortunately the school has had no real impact on the architectural profession and architectural h...

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: That is so ridiculous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Selling the archives is incompetency on steroids. They cannot be that irresponsible. It would be better to gift the drawings to the Art Institute of Chicago and then file bankruptcy. And then put those responsible in j...

Prior to Wright the running head trim detail was used by Louis Sullivan who probably took it from the Japanese.

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I wish RJH the best in renting it out. Times are tight for a lot of folks.

I would think there would be an alternative to regularly spending that kind of money and throwing away, on a regular basis, all of that glass. IMO the alternative is to get laminate glass that is fabricated properly and make sure that they are installed properly. If my firm were the restoration arc...

I am sure that the strategy will be to identify a laminate layer that will resist the extremely high humidity at the site.

so let me get this straight - the conservancy removed original single pane glass and used laminated glass for the UV filter, and now the laminating glass is failing? Maybe they should have tried something else.. Yes you are correct in your understanding of the problem. They are going to replace the...

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