Wright Chat

What is a "viable Wright-designed building"?

SREcklund - ". . his new book on OLW . . " has been out several months.

Bruce was one of a kind. His dedication and commitment to the legacy of everything Frank Lloyd Wright is without equal.

Thanks to all for the kind words. The AGG book was a team effort for sure! Kudos should also go out to Allan Wright Green, Jan Novie, Alan Hess, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Daniel Ruark and to ORO Editions, the book's publisher. Regarding the AGG triangular logo embossed on the book's back cover, it was ...

This mid-20th Century modern Fort Lauderdale icon was originally called Pier 66 . . built in the mid-1960s (not in 1957). Humble was an in-house corporate architect with Phillips Petroleum, the owner of the property.

Since you asked . . I would personally list Henderson's book as #4, below Bruce Goff: Towards Absolute Architecture and Bruce Goff: Design for a Continuous Present with Morhri's Bruce Goff in Architecture at the top.

Not the best IMHO, but the book is a nice welcome edition to the published resources on the life work of the iconic architect Bruce Goff (especially the chapter " Teaching Organic Architecture "). My only criticism is that the quality of many of the photographs is poor and there is at leas...

I put her work into the "Just Do It" category, along with Frank Gehry and many other current starkitects. Its all surface, no substance - "computer architecture." Because of technology and the computer they basically do just what they feel like doing. When I see work by these tec...

The Call building model was originally located at Taliesin, but sometime prior to Mr. Wright's death it was relocated and displayed at Hillside.

Alfred Browning Parker was another architect whose work Frank Lloyd Wright complimented.

Roderick - To clarify, the Journal of the Taliesin Fellows is published by the Taliesin Fellows, not "Taliesin" nor the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

The original drawing "borrowed" (and yet to be returned) by David Wheatly featured on the Antiques Roadshow is a sketch for the Edgar J. Kaufmann Farm Cottage at Fallingwater. Per BBP, the project dates circa 1941.

I've been told it was David C. Wheatley.

Thank you m.perrino. Unsolicited high praise is always welcome and appreciated. Its good to know that our efforts are being noticed. We are having fun and will continue to publish so long as there are subscribers whose organic thirst requires quenching.

In support of m.perrino's post, I too had huge issues with the all too many factual errors and inaccuracies voiced by the narrator of the film.

Incredibly, the Klinkowitz book has no illustrations - its all words. But its an interesting read; not just "another biography of Frank Lloyd Wright." Its written from a different and previously unexplored point of view.