Wright Chat

too bad you are leaving so soon. there is a great book which i picked up this spring at the uc berkeley art museum entitled norcalmod by pierluigi serraino published by chronicle books. is anyone familiar with it? architects like mark mills, warren mccallister, anshen and allen (of eichler fame) bev...

thank you!

I believe that no architect-designed kit-of-parts system, including Schindler's, has ever met with a satisfactory reception. Oddly, the appeal of such a system, from the consumer's point of view, seems to attach to more conventional residential design; Sears and others did a lot of business with th...

what is going on with the kier house? it seems like a reasonable price for glencoe.

gropius is an interesting example. what he lacked in talent and real training, he made up for in stirring rhetoric, intelligence, charisma and sophisticated social theory. the collective nature of early bauhaus ideas de-emphasized the individual romantic genius, and put the focus on problem solving ...

I find this mania for attribution curious. If it left the drawing room with FLW's signature on it, then it's a FLW design. How good or bad a design it is (I happen to think it's quite strong) is a matter of personal preference. Where does the game of assessing how much Wright was involved (or how m...

Oh, forgot to mention one of the drawings at the Getty was for a fireplace grate as mentions above. I took the hanging metal basket on a swing arm to be a kind of wine-warmer...like that at Fallingwater. It's a very angular design in keeping with the triangular motif of the home. I suppose some day...

Confirmed. At this stage, I formally atribute the desgn to Hill, Howe or Bessenger with Wright input.

thanks for your formal attribution! how much do i owe your unnamed wright consultation firm for its research?

sincerely,

peter

Very intresting. This is the first Wright Usonian where I beleive the swimming pool is not part of the slab/attached to the house in some fashion. Examples are Thaxton, Hoffman and Fawcet among others. Hhhmm....[/quote] anyway, rjh, if you are curious, the axis from the triangular carport continues ...

oh, and the future swimming pool was not to be located at the back of the house, but to the south of the entry court, and would include a pool house. the elevations from the wright foundation are exactly what was built, including what has been described here as the "awkward" entire rear an...

here's the story directly from the letters and confirmed by bill lamberson, jack lambersons son. lamberson asked wright for a ten thousand dollar house. wright said he could do one for fifteen thousand. they agreed on that and made the first payment. a series of revisions are made in the plans. a le...

Frankie-Oh wrote: Please don't construe the way my comments have been used as evidence that I support such misguided conclusions and mean-spiritedness.

no problem. it didn't even cross my mind. thanks for your encouragement!

peter

wrightgeek and all:

i'm proud to be a member of your club! but i'm still sticking to my lower case...

that is nonsense rjh! i have plans from the foundation signed frank lloyd wright, with copies of correspondences directly from wright to both of the lambersons. i have talked with bill lamberson, who told me that "jack" lamberson, his father, built the dining table from wright's drawings. ...