Wright Chat

True, yet this site shows the 1956 Boulter House in Cincinnati listing for sale suddenly: https://savewright.org/building/boulter-house/?for_sale=1&base-type=wright-on-the-market It sold in 2021 in a day: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1-Rawson-Woods-Cir_Cincinnati_OH_45220_M3...

Here’s modest c.1920 cousin that’s worth including in this thread (despite profound alterations). I confess it requires a level of forensic backdating and imagination to consider it, yet there are hints and clues here-and-there. The thickness of the living room wall allows for the inset window and a...

Wright got hijacked for a nutter conspiracy theory on Brutalism. I’m posting this just for your noir entertainment, yet the exploitation video (and viewer comments) provide a glimpse into how much of the populace views Wright and modern architecture today: BRUTALIZED- Frank Lloyd Wright In Lakeland,...

Thank you for the useful insights, and thank you to KevinW for helping get the word-out on MidmodFB. I see the hemicycle is Pending! Fingers are crossed that your collective effort helped to match a sensitive buyer with this intact apprentice house.

With further digging, a newspaper article named apprentice Richard C. Clark as the designer of this house. It’s tragic he died at only twenty-five, this being his only design. Clark is described as coming from Bakersfield and working in Wright’s San Francisco office. There has been some conversation...

I’m told the house was built for schoolteacher Edward Wesley Gray (1926-2007) and his 2nd wife who married in 1957. Gray grew up in the area, and lived at the house into the 1990’s at least, and the home is still owned by family, as mentioned. The stepped concrete fireplace and master bed alcoves ev...

Ha! That must have been I, Mike Pugh. Come to think of it, the Barnsdall Art Park did have all sorts of nutty activity going on in those days, eh?

Roderick, no harm done. We’re all on the same team here. In fact, you were enormously generous to me when I was a teenager docent at Hollyhock during the Ginny Kazor years. Before I even went away to architecture school, you “schooled me” on the tremendous poetry and stunning aesthetics of a FLlW, L...

Roderick, you’re seeing the light! Hosanna! You recently dismissed my plea for all FLlW organizations to embrace organic design thinking as a “screed”; we all must evolve into Post-COVID relevance/survival. I don’t take your witty sass personally, but I’m grateful a loud rooster like yourself has se...

“Dear Just-Another-FLlW-Armchair-Critic: Thank you for your concern and thoughtful comments. Please keep in mind that it is always the primary priority of any organization to grow in size, and next is to protect itself. This priority comes before consideration of serving our mission statement or ack...

I emailed conference leaders multiple times these past months, and I never received the courtesy of a response. That speaks loudly to the larger problem. My Wright enthusiasm has remained active, yet private, until now. I can’t be silent as “tone deaf” nonprofit boards continue to grow their organiz...