Wright Chat

The images I have posted are only on the Bernard Schwartz house - with copyright citation http://wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=214&start=60 As the files provided are PDF's , Ive had to screenshot them to png format, and then hosted them on my Flickr account. Iv posted them to...

received this email from Avery I have been notified that you posted five images from project 3904 Bernard Schwartz house (Two Rivers, Wisconsin) in a blog post on the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy's Wright Chat (link). Allow me to kindly remind you that I have explained you in my email fro...

Ive been to the R. jester house that Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer built up the hill at Taliesin west. Quite a memorable experience, walking into circular lounge room from a square terrace. Got a real sense of being inside Geometry. I'd also have to say the building did nothing to ameliorate the Arizona lat...

hmm.I get the same thing- I wonder if they have made it so you can only watch it on the ABC iview app - we watched it on our iPad

wow - plan reads like an expression of the pilotis.

man would love to have a look at the framing plan for the carport cantilever roof

oh - with avery archives - can now- if they have the full construction set of drawings!

bales are usually plastered as a finish - longevity - depends on the micro- climate and degree of exposure. My oldest lime plastered building was built in 1996 in Hilton - a suburb adjacent to port of Fremantle it had a fire during construction - but was put back together - this is a infill structur...

straw's inherent structural ability straw bales is/are a compressible material that is quite elastic - meaning you can squash it, then remove this load and it springs back to its shape. Within a bale and a wall, there is inbuilt tensions - cause the straw stems are compacted and squashed then held t...

Rug diagram july 1940 seems to show a fairly up to date arrangement ie no entry cloak cupboard, no bedroom Robe, no lilly pond, wide pier to steps base https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49950957756_77bde6a41d_h.jpg © The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Arch...

well spotted I wonder if the variation depends on who drew it? Further to that, I wonder what they were thinking - it certainly adds to the complexity of the construction - therefore additional cost. Could you image it as a straight balustrade though! - Na this is so much more interesting! https://i...

abc ivew have uploaded a film on the work of Australian Architect Richard LePlastier - a marvellous architect of the Organic type. He worked for Jorn Utzon on the Sydney Opera House, then moved to Japan for a few years- he gives an insight into the Japanese way of thinking - which may give an insigh...

and the typical published plan note - lilly pond is now scrubbed out unit lines scribed in and in top left corner, feint lines of pergola and some trellis/garden at the end - the farm unit maybe? master bedroom- bed shown in final position folding screen to grand piano -to keep sunlight off it? tool...

These 4 plans - 2 dated 1940 look to me to be the culminating plans - possibly for publication purposes? or final signoff with Mr Schwartz GF plan note lily pond at end of terrace, and sunken garden off terrace also the central axial line and the curved drive way intersection point is at front door ...

further to what SDR said the blue plan was just my screenshot of the drawing which was still highlighted - Here it is reposted as normal ( black on grey) https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49950875772_79ad747440_h.jpg and can understand now, why the dining room roof joists are only 2- 2x4- as the s...

Is there a way I can change the font in our written contributions - I find this font rather difficult to read when in a paragraph- its okay as a heading or title.

July 1939 revision SH2 Main floor plan https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947452056_c4b7ed01d5_h.jpg SH4 Upper floor plan https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947738392_e734d4d8f3_h.jpg Revised Utility room https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49947740567_930300fab7_b.jpg There are other sheets o...