Wright Chat

It's always interesting to see how Wright presented his work in published form. "The Natural House" (1954) includes a chapter illustrated with eight images of the Pew house; here they are in order, with Wright's captions: http://sdrdesign.com/FLWPew1.JPG http://sdrdesign.com/FLWPew2.JPG ht...

Sergeant, p 40, speaks of "the twenty-six completed Usonians, and some thirty-one unbuilt Usonian house projects of the prewar period. . ."



Elsewhere in the notes Sergeant mentions visiting more than forty post-1937 Wright houses, in the summer of 1969. His book is copyright 1976.



SDR

I like this concise physical definition, by The Old Man himself. . . Architectural Forum, January 1938, pp. 77-80: "1 Visible roofs are expensive and unnecessary. 2 A garage is no longer necessary, as cars are made. A carport will do, with liberal overhead shelter and walls on two sides. 3 The ...

I don't find a number in Sergeant. . .nor indeed a list.



SDR

Without in any way attempting to minimize my crime, I wonder if it is worth asking about the differences between appropriating someone else's work and calling it one's own, for the profit either of one's ego or one's purse (on the one hand), and displaying someone else's work for the entertainment o...

"Updated and refurbished for modern living but not changed from the original. . ." A neat trick ! This is the house with the gorgeous lapped-board ceiling coffer and the wonderful asymmentrical fireplace lintel-stone. Also a long-standing example of natural untreated Cypress siding, lookin...

When I first learned of the local architects' sandcastle-building charity event, at Aquatic Beach, I thought of doing my own unpremiated entry: a sand and wood Pauson house. Never happened, I'm sorry to say.

Not that I am in a position to build a house. . .

So. . .I could build my own copy of a Wright house with no problem ? Olgivanna isn't going to rise from the soil and tell me I'm rude and inconsiderate ?



Excellent !

Thank you, sir -- glad you're with us.



It does seem a shame to hide so much light under cover, as it were. Sharing what one finds, with others like-minded (or not) is one of life's primal (if not primitive ?) pleasures.



SDR

Thanks, Craig. Actually, Mobius finds the weak point in Rudolph's inspired ode to Fallingwater; I too thought the ball was dropped, there. Otherwise, it seems to me an artist's perceptive assessment of another artist's accomplishment -- which, like other masterworks, may even have surpassed its make...

Please calm yourself. The NY Times doesn't care if readers of their free online edition quote them elsewhere. The publishers of a 36-year-old out-of-print edition don't care if I reprint for public review at no profit to me. The site administrators have (wisely) distanced themselves legally from the...

My thanks, too, for the post. I haven't yet looked at today's Times -- which arrives at no cost to me on my screen every day, following a simple and free registration. Highly recommended. . .!



SDR

To what end ? I'm sorry, but I've been reposting NT Times articles and opinion pieces (on another design site) for more than a year with no negative feedback. Published literature is posted on the web all the time. I think it is a service to readers to quote relevant published material; until otherw...

Here is an essay on Fallingwater by architect Paul Rudolph, found in the Global Architecture large-format paperbound "picture book" on the house (photographs by Yukio Futagawa), first published in Japan by A.D.A Edita in 1970