Wright Chat

I misread the drawings; the "pierced overhangs" (squares sitting on lower roofs at left, sheet C) are actually planter boxes for hanging vines. Those, and the rough random ashlar masonry, are certainly Wrightian touches ! I suppose you've noticed that the main plan (sheet B) is marked &quo...

Hasui:

1931






1945

Another Usonian prototype (?) by Rudolph Schindler, drawn in 1918 but unbuilt. Note masonry-supported horizontal wooden fabric, ceiling decks and clerestory openings, two- foot square module, built-in seats and shelves, ganged French doors, pierced roof overhangs, etc. The logs are meant to be left ...

Right -- a less common alternative to Ian, a "modern Scottish Gaelic" name, according to one source. The "Visual Encyclopedia" (1999, 2000, © PRC Publishing) is 416 pages, arranged alphabetically by project or client name. If the "Year by Year" is arranged chronologica...

Now *that* was nicely said. . .



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Congratulations on the new "baby" !



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Interesting. When was it published ? The Jacobs's "Building With FLLW" (which covers both residences) is from 1978; Herb Jacobs published "FLLW: America's Greatest Architect" in 1965.

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Nelson Rockefeller (Governor of New York in the 'sixties) on the other hand was a patron of the arts. . .

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A friend sends along this:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitio ... /edo/view/

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One more. . .

..............Here's a series from the same blocks, by Hiroshi Yoshida:

Who can tell us if Wright had favorite Japanese wood-block artists ? I see mention of Hiroshige (and Hokusai ?) in his writings. Are there others ?

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An overlooked American Impressionist, 15 years senior to the elder Yoshida, has a unique "hand," I believe, in his hard- point pastels, done in Maine, Norway, France and Venice in the years immediately prior to WW I. The drawings are all 12 x 14 inches. (Most of the woodblock prints above ...

Eight more Hasui: http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui17.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui18.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui19.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui20.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui21.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui22.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui23.jpg http://sdrdesign.com/Hasui24.jpg Here we see a sour...

A friend sends along a second Hiroshi Yoshida print similar (?) to one I posted above.

Chinese-style Bridge (Kansai District series) - 1933

Spring in a Hot Spring - 1940