Wright Chat

The boost to Cosanti/Arcosanti is a major plus to be applauded. Now the question is: What happens to the Taliesins? It might allow them to edit some of the now-unnecessary accretions that accommodated the pupils, and restore every inch of both buildings to their 1959 states. But then, other than hou...

I met the Hults at the 1988 FLWBC conference at Fallingwater. They asked me about getting help to address restoration concerns for their newly acquired house, so I introduced them to Wes Peters. I don't know what that may have led to, but the significant enlargement may have been done by TAA.

MOman2, do you mean 'denouement' or 'climax'?

Bear Run may not be the Moldau, but Smetana was a good choice for the music on the second video, even though it did get a bit rambunctious while in the living room.

In an age of demolishing public housing and replacing it with shiny new carbon-hungry developments is never about "regeneration," always about profit.

Another choice for title: "Unconstrained."

Decades ago, I found a store in Santa Monica that had old issues of AH for a quarter apiece. I bought all but one of the issues that contained FLW material.

Of course, Penfield belongs in the same lineage.

ndhayes, Have you heard that the Burleigh House in Wilmette has just sold for $635K?

The first plan shows the carpet almost as executed, with only minor differences. The fireplace and moat around it are significantly larger than as-built. The outline of the couches is close to the blueprint that the Lovnesses had, and which I saw in 1984, but which differed enough so that it was use...

Built-ins for Usonian houses, as opposed to similarly functioning free-standing units for Prairie houses, undoubtedly came about because of the diminutive size of most of those houses, especially the Jacobs I House and its progeny. The Hollyhock units had a tortuous evolution, as did so much of the ...

Burton J. Westcott preliminary designs: 1712. 001,002,003,019 ... at least! of some 50 images showing a living room about twice the size of as-built.

I have always like Farwood. It's similar in both design and (almost) scale as Richardson's Stoughton House.

Peabody & Stearns designed some of the best houses of their time, but mostly more along the lines of the James J. Hill House, a 36,000 sf stone 'cottage' in St. Paul. I place them in the same category as Stanford White and HH Richardson. This house is a indeed a cottage by the standards of P&...

Especially impressive are the reflections of the building in the undulating water of the pools. Eventually CGI zombies will evolve into credible humans, and we can watch Anne Baxter and Joan Fontaine (who resided there as a teen and hated it) walking through the place, stopping for lunch.