Wright Chat

I searched "paul harvey frank lloyd wright" on the YouTube Premium page---and got that and three other Frank Lloyd Wright stories from him . . .

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As a designer Mr Wright manages to keep himself out of trouble, most of the time. A minor exception: http://sdrdesign.com/suntop.jpg If the carpenter at Suntop had continued those three or four top-most parapet boards to abut the ones beyond, I imagine the architect might have been a bit happier ? N...

Actually, there are a few fussy decorative elements that could have been eliminated, as I see it. But who's to quibble with a master ? "Not I," they said, to the Little Red Hen . . .

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DailyWright Fri Jun 17 http://sdrdesign.com/DA1907BlossomCaretakerGarage.jpg George Bossom at Artstor: https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Wright%20Blossom;term=Wright%20Blossom;page=1;size=24 The file contains six drawings for the house---and fourteen for the barn/garage. Dave Anderson's DailyWri...

Wow---a "Starter Fay Jones" perfectly sited and lovingly detailed. I do hope it finds its appropriate new owner.

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http://sdrdesign.com/DA1903BartonResidenceGlazingDetail.jpeg George Barton at Artstor: https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Wright%20George%20Barton;page=1;size=24 The sole George Barton drawing in the archive is a drawing for the stained glass window pattern. The subject of Dave Anderson's DailyWr...

Tonight's PBS NewsHour ends with a visit to the Farmers' National Bank building. There's some good close-up photography of the red brick and rich green-glazed terra cotta embellishment, and interior views from novel angles. An architectural historian declares the building to be one of the ten best b...

. . .the assumption being that he made this change as the house was being built---or later, when he was adding the wing to the house ? We see this ceiling beam detail with its characteristic resolution at one exterior wall in other work by Howe: https://www.edinarealty.com/homes-for-sale/3304-mayowo...

Today's DailyWright image from Dave Anderson is a view of the garden side of the E CLarke Arnold residence of 1954, in Columbus, Wisconsin. http://sdrdesign.com/DA1954ArnoldResidenceTerrace.jpg William Allin Storrer's coverage of the house, as published in "The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion"...

Here we inaugurate a new thread, one destined, if all goes well, to remain near the top of the forum index, for it will present a new Wright photograph each weekday, for the foreseeable future. The photos of Wright buildings and artifacts to be seen here are the work of one Dave Anderson, address un...

I've had the same question, as to the structural possibilities. As I've commented before, I think, there's a big difference between and dome and a series of connected flat planes when it comes to overcoming gravity. Moreover, there are not straight-line paths through a honeycomb grid for post-tensio...

Now THAT's organic ! It's never looked better in photographs; the aerial view with all lights blazing is marvelous.

The living-room window wall beneath an arch evokes Lautner's Silvertop . . .?

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I wonder if the astronomical asking price (has any Wright building, anywhere, had an $8M price tag ?) was designed expressly to discourage its acquisition by a developer or other demolition-minded potential buyer ? Naturally, that price will tend to separate the fainthearted Wright lover from the tr...

Anything modern is "Frank Lloyd Wright." Why couldn't Frank Gehry be the target of these misappropriations ? Can we foist the fake Franks off on him, somehow ? We need a mis-reeducation program of some sort. Get your whiz-kids started on that, stat !

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Remarkably, there isn't much to be done to Mathews to put it in top shape. The house was well maintained, and a new cedar-shingled roof was completed two years ago (detailed and overseen by WC member WJSaia). One improvement might be contemplated: the original dining table, which abutted the firepla...