Wright Chat

Many a journalist has been taken unaware by a fanciful statement presented (perhaps by someone who was represented as an "expert" ?) as a fact, I suppose. Yes -- early on Mr Wright intentionally or accidentally mistook his date of birth as 1869 when in fact it was 1867. (Who did he think h...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0610210197oct22,0,5720799.story?coll=chi-travel-hed The article covers the VC Morris shop on Maiden Lane, the Marin County Civic Center, and the Hanna house in Palo Alto. "The Marin County Civic Center is believed to be the first atrium building. . .&quo...

Thank YOU, and thanks for sharing your photos, which I will start enjoying now !



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Lovely quote from Mr Nesbitt. There's a client AND a site that deserved a Wright home. The drawings are marvelous, aren't they ?

Thank you so much -- I'll check it out. Your link again, Mark ?



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I'm so sorry to hear that. . .

Oh, that's lovely. Wish I could be there -- hope you and yours enjoy it. Take pictures. . .! Here's a thread from another architecture-conscious site; althought the first link on the page is no longer active, there are other interesting bits of McDonald, including a statement by a former McDonald as...

[answering allwrightythen] But a Wright structure isn't just any nice three-bedroom house. . . :D I remain dubious that any architect could produce a buildable set of working drawings in two hours. But. . .never mind -- I admire you too much to want to argue. I would like to pursue the lettering iss...

All most interesting ! I suppose Mr Laurent might have collapsed time in his memory, or remembered one meeting when there were two -- but it's not for me to question something I have no knowledge of. Perhaps Mr Wright really was a demon draftsman, on top of his other unique talents. Others have corr...

Very interesting information. I suppose by "working drawings" Mr Laurent meant a preliminary set of plans and elevations. We all know a multi-page set of construction documents takes more than two hours to produce. . . Another possibility is that this was something already drawn for anothe...

. . .Maybe the little Usonian neighborhood that would have surrouded the Goetsch-Winkler. . .



And one certainly would have wanted to see San Marcos-in-the-Desert, entire -- with the two or three private residences designed at the same time.



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I'd missed the wonderful discussion of Wright S's until today. Those seem to show up in some designers' hands from the late twenties (?) on. As to Wright's office style -- it was certainly dependent on who was on the boards; you can't hold the man's hand while he letters (or draws, for that matter) ...

Thank you much. I've sent you an email. I wonder if the house has changed hands recently, and what its condition is. It certainly seems a grand essay on one of the post-war house types, with echoes (at least) of Taliesin and other early work -- do you think ? (As looky-loo kids we never got a proper...

I have always thought that colorful geometric pattern -- so typical of Wright's late graphic play -- ill-suited the Taliesin living room (if only in the photos I had seen). I'm glad to have further information about its doings there. I grew up in the town where the Hoffman house is located. When Nor...

What a wonderful journey -- to the truth. I commend you. . .



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