Wright Chat

To me this is one of Wright's weakest designs. It just feels like an ungainly blob without any grace or musicality. Granted, I've never seen it in person.

As an avid model maker, I've always thought an FLW Museum should have models of all his designs. But there's an aesthetic component to any model. Back in the Wright's day, a model would attempt to reflect materials, colors, and even foliage. Sometimes this worked to good effect, but often it came ac...

This house looks like it was made of concrete, but I assume it's stucco over wood. It makes me wonder how much Wright was influenced by the early French modernists working in concrete.

Thanks for the drawings. I look forward to studying them. You're spot on about that extended soldier course that gives a shadowline. The whole composition reads as very simple volumes from a distance, beautifully arranged, then as you get closer you pick out these finer levels of detail. So these ma...

Great photos. I hope I can visit this house someday. Love the crisp brickwork with flush vertical mortar. And how the soldier course below the windows is mirrored with dentils on the fascia.

" In doing so he naturally watered-down the magic considerably" I agree with this. It is interesting to hear the comparison between Erdman and "custom" Usonians when the Usonian was intended to be the low-cost house for the common man. From the outside, Erdman has a tract home look that feels dull c...

My problem with Erdman is that Wright wants to make a Usonian house in a prefab manner, rather than creating a design from easily replicated modular parts. Which is odd as Wright was all about the modular. I suppose there is a history of his difficulty in working with modular units in the textile bl...

Have they determined the cause of the latest fire?

Thanks for posting. I'd never seen those chairs before. Sort of a riff on the barrel chair only hexagonal. I'd be more interested in making one of them than tackling an origami chair. Are chair plans amongst the drawings? One label notes the collection of hardwoods on hand. I wonder if they are stil...

There is so much going on in the drawings that I'm left wondering if the only way to really understand them is to build a house. I know the School has students build shelters out in the desert, but they might consider having each class build an actual house somewhere. Pick an unbuilt design and buil...

Are there any covenants attached to the sale? Does the buyer have to maintain the house as is? I'd hate to see some billionaire tear it down.

Look Great. Someone should have done this ages ago. Are they prefab? Are these "licensed" from the Foundation?

My dream is to buy the place and turn it into a residence. The coolest bach-pad in San Fran.

Really pathetic that they are disturbing this house in order to creat a parking lot. Grrr. School districts are responsible for a lot of such nonsense...as in the Irving Gill house that LA Unified tore down decades ago to their everlasting shame.

The steep pitch roof reminds me of the Griggs House in Tacoma. I do wonder if the living room here wouldn't feel rather claustrophobic with tall walls, pitched roof, and few windows. And this design commits a pet peeve of mine, which is that guests pass the living room on the way to the front door.