Wright Chat

(I'll perhaps size down the above images today, so that the thread loads faster. Get a gander while you can. . .)


SDR

Thanks ! I've never seen color images of this work.

I wonder if the Lincoln Park pieces have red paint as well. I used to think I could detect red in a black-and white photo -- a certain kind of medium-dark gray. Makes no sense, of course. . .


SDR

Alfred Caldwell practiced and taught architecture and landscape architecture in Illinois and Wisconsin over a period of fifty years. I have extracted a number of images and some text from the monograph, "Architecture and Nature: the work of Alfred Caldwell," Werner Blaser, Birkhauser Verla...

On Wednesday of this week, architect Barry Peterson of Sausalito sent me this email http://us.f823.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=1985_78261469_373110_2592_2524945_0_54470_3295078_2693912251&Idx=42&YY=63384&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=1&a...

Poor man's Mile High Illinois ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transamerica_Pyramid

Great question. It would depend upon the content of the article and its illustrations, wouldn't it; if copyright or other restriction is claimed in text or captions, then that would prevail. Again, there is a question whether anything other than words, names and images are in fact protected. . . SDR

Holubar photos, with captions, of some participants in the recent workshop: http://sdrdesign.com/DSC00962.jpg Architects Joe Richvalski (KA Architecture) & Kurt Weaver (AKW, Inc.) working under the carport http://sdrdesign.com/DSC00977.jpg W-J Docent Fred Unwin, architects Mark Gilles (Arrc Inc....

These are the standard wall footings that would make the average building department happy. Note the frost line in the second illustration. This is generally taken to be from three to four feet, in the northern half of the country, at least. http://sdrdesign.com/footing2.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/foo...

I think that's a hard buff-colored brick. Wright used a softer-looking buff brick on a few projects, such as the Bach house (S.193). On page 3 is another version of the Haynes coffee table. This seems to be a nicely-built project. It would look better with that 2-board fascia on the secondary roof, ...

RJH -- My message asks whether in fact the great majority of Wright's Usonians were built with the kind of footings mentioned by Mr Harding. I believe the answer is yes. Despite what the sections of your house show, the question remains: What kind of footings were actually constructed ?

SDR

Wright was drawing this trench footing in 1939 (at least); he believed this to be an adequate base for a small building even where frozen soil is present, on the argument that water is well-drained by the design. I take it that this was not approved in the majority of the built projects, and more co...

Is it possible in your experience for tree roots to mess with a concrete slab ?



SDR

Squirrels ! Oh, the horror. . . Foundation problems are serious. Maybe the tree in the last photo could have been spared ? Too late now, so no sense crying. Trees do eventually need to be "retired," don't they ? As long as new ones are planted now, with care and planning (and eventual prun...

Aha. (I thought it was a funny coincidence that my map cuts off where it does.) Thanks for the true skinny. . .as they say, somewhere.

I wonder if we've answered the poster's question. We tried, anyway ! Good work, Bob.

SDR

Thanks, Bob. Can you clarify for us that the house was within sight of the water ? In the map above the center (?) of Deephaven is maybe a mile south of the lake, while Woodland appears to be closer to where we think the house was located (?). Of course, these maps have been known to be off. (This i...