Wright Chat

And since you mention Michigan, the May house in Grand Rapids is an overnight trip. You could fly and be back in a day.

P.S. Schwartz in Wisconsin and Penfield in Ohio are also available overnight. See Wright Links / Buildings at this site.

Seth Peterson (sethpeterson.org) books up months in advance. You'd better act now. Haynes (hayneshousellc.com) and Muirhead (muirheadfarmhouse.com) are also available for overnight rentals. The Chicago area has dozens of Wright buildings in addition to the ones that are publicly accessible, so you d...

I'll regret these words if the house is bulldozed away in 6 months, but this looks like a bluff to me, too. If the seller were willing to sell the place as a teardown and had a serious offer of a 50% premium at a time when prices are starting to come down, he'd take it. If he were eager to sell at a...

Following up on what Richard said: are you sure it's Wright? Storrer's books (FLlW Companion, The Architecture of FLlW) are the standard catalogs.



Peter

I ought to say the house for Ayn Rand just because I admire her so much and because it would have made a great story, but it really wasn't one of Wright's best. Perhaps this is because he (quite rightly) suspected that they wouldn't build. Instead I'll cast another vote for Mc Cormick, with mention ...

Here in LA it's usually Lloyd Wright or John Lautner. Some places it's whatever is the weirdest, ugliest piece of modern architecture within a day's drive.



Peter

I'm skeptical. Do you have a client name and a date for the design in question? Sixty Years of Living Architecture , perhaps among other sources, has a list of projects as well as completed buildings. If you can supply this I can look it up. Stories like this one pop up from time to time, usually to...

For street addresses of the Wright buildings, see Storrer. The Playouse is a little hard to find, because some unrelated houses, on lots subdivided from the original Coonley estate, stand between. Anyway, it faces the river straight east of the main house. Two other Coonley buildings stand nearby. I...

I've long thought that the Imperial Hotel is the best evidence that Wright didn't play a major role at the Biltmore. The latter's public spaces are a series of rigidly lined-up rectangular volumes; they're open to each other, but they don't intersect the way spaces do in even his smallest interiors....

I agree that a rule against posting without a login account would improve this list. Some equally urgent suggestions: 1. A total ban on "Mc Mansion;" 2. No complaining about the asking price of a building unless the complainer has walked through it by appointment with an agent. Open houses...

Along with Schindler's Pueblo Ribera, La Jolla also has Gill's Womens' Club and Kahn's Salk Center. The Club, when last I looked, was open to the public on weekend mornings and perhaps at other times. Salk Center has a tour program, but you should see the classic view - looking toward the ocean when...

Sullivan did a number of small-town banks around the midwest in later years. The one in Owatonna MN, about a mile east of Rt. 35, currently Wells Fargo, is in beautiful condition and open during business hours. If you go to Minneapolis and Mason City, it's on the way between them. Olfelt, in St. Lou...

The Gropius residence in Lincoln is open for tours (http://www.spnea.org/visit/homes/gropius.htm). Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center at Harvard (his only building in the US) and Kahn's library at Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire are both worth seeing. In the Exeter case you'd be wise to call ahead. Wr...

It's nowadays the Xanadu Gallery (www.xanadugallery.us), a multi-tenant folk art gallery, open during regular business hours. It got a beautiful restoration ca. 2000 by Aaron Green, who built it in the first place, just before he died. Hanna and Marin both give public tours, though Hanna's may be fa...