Wright Chat

Whats more the photos on page 45, suggest that the carport rafters and eaves rafters are running perpendicular to the kitchen/entry rafters. Bugger me - how does that work? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49759690262_1ea059730c_o.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49758834233_cfc71a7fa9_o.j...

I had forgotten about this article on the GW roof renovation. The photograph in top right hand corner on page 43 confounds me. It shows a 10" steel beam that is not in the original contstruction drawings, and added by original contractor. Fine, we know that steel was added on the sly to many W...

here - Ive combined the 2 Old house journal pages of the Roof framing plan, it shows additional or larger steel added. I think the original plan says 6 x 3.75" 'I' beams? ( 150UB18) - This new plan says 10 WF and 10 x 10 x .5" WF - which weighs 10 x 77 - 770 lbs = 250 UC79 = 3 x 79 = 338 k...

I started a construction model of this residence in 2006, using the only bit of info I had - photos and drawings from the book - ADA Edita Selected houses No 6 pg 56-65 looks like with this additional info on the roof framing, I can now adjust it and get it reasonably correct! screen shot of model i...

and more note the webs site has some pretty amazing clarity in zooming in! much better than the downloadable version and this note is attached to them Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) Drawings and Renderings for Mr. and Mrs. Randall Fawcett Ranch House, Mercer County, California (twenty-six ...

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might be violating copyright here - but here goes copy paste link from that web site! https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F2%2F1%2F4%2F4%2F22144394%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F2%2F1%2F4%2F4%2F2214436...

More precisely, if Storrer's arrow is correctly place, NNW is up. <snip> Storrers drawing measures 33 degrees This site plan indicates north point http://images.library.wisc.edu/Arts/EFacs/ChazPubs/FLWMadison/M/0123.jpg which I have now imported , added reference lines and measured the angle - 33.5...

stairs I think there was fundamental change in Mr Wright when he started on the Usonions - when compared to the earlier Prairie houses, in that in those early houses often the stair were adjacent to the entry halls- and when entering you either went in 3 directions - up to bedrooms - (private spaces...

I wondered about what time of the year this photo was taken at, to be able to get shadows on the north walls and thus sun on the deck. http://sdrdesign.com/PewExt1.jpg looks like about 4 pm in August 21st - using the trellis shadow as the guide - for about 2 hrs 3- 5 pm https://live.staticflickr.com...

<snip> http://sdrdesign.com/Pew4012.003.jpg <SNIP> I reckon that might be the original idea, which evolved. The most interesting spect is the eventual deletion of the living room south windows - which is where morning and midday sunlight would be coming from. Im not familiar with the climate in tha...

<snip> Too bad the LR ceiling as built has no corresponding section drawing among the published sheets; bravo to you for your efforts. <snip> I was looking at a photo the the living room and noticed a discrepency - the ceiling recess appears to go to the end wall - where as on the drawings, it indi...

<snip> http://sdrdesign.com/PewSect4012.19Det.jpg SDR, thanks for enlarging the detail - much more readable. my guess is left side is exterior, right side interior ( cause of the stepping out of the boards) . Interesting they are calling both the interior and exterior boards "weather boards&qu...

Very good. I'll post the Taliesin section drawings again, to highlight a couple of possible errors. When Mr Wright invoked the "organic honesty" (my term) of the consistent use of material---the same material and detail employed both outside and inside of the a building---he meant what he...