Wright Chat

SDR · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 18509 Location: San Francisco

Sadly, while there is some content online about Simpsons episodes which were about architecture, I don't find anyone listing architecture-as-background or setting on the show. I still think these shots
of a movie-house lobby contain a reference to Usonian perfs; are those Wrightian blocks and ceiling panels ?

Oh---and I have two more random appearances, of Wright and of a Craft Architect or Shingle Style residence ?

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Paul Ringstrom · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 4236 Location: Mason City, IA

Hubert Bebb, apprentice?

https://www.curbed.com/2019/8/19/20812225/great-smoky-mountains-national-park-house-for-sale
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DavidC · Joined: 02 Sep 2006 Posts: 7248 Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Nope. He was never an apprentice. He doesn't show up on either John Geiger's List or the Taliesin Timeline. He studied at Cornell University’s College of Architecture.

I wrote to the article's author yesterday offering the link for her edification. But, apparently, nothing has changed, as of yet.

David

Roderick Grant · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 9724

Not on the list.

Roderick Grant · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 9724

Cartoons are thin porridge when it comes to social commentary, which is why I have never watched a single episode of The Simpsons, or any other such. But I have caught sight of a Wright-related design on TV on more than one occasion: The grille from the Johnny Hill-designed house in Cincinnati has cropped up here and there. I wouldn't be surprised if there are wallpaper manufacturers who offer it. As a complex & orderly geometric pattern, it is about as good as it gets for a backdrop.