Wright Chat

Coonley had a fire? I'd never heard that. Care to expand on that Roderick? Rebuilt to perfection indeed.

RARE! Antique Frank LLoyd Wright Window Panes Architectural Salvage Wavy Glass This made my heart stop for a moment. At first glance they bear a strong resemblance to the pointed doors going into the Bar & Garden Club at Midway Gardens. The proportions are wrong as is the base, but I got excite...

I hope they rebuild. People who say it's not possible and that "it will never be the same" are just flat wrong. If the Russians could rebuild the palaces of Tsarskoye Selo after the war, Amber Room included, then there is no reason that Arch Oboler can't rise from the ashes, especially if ...

I have to admit that, though I find it to be a fine house, I don't think I'd want to live in it. The living room is too open for me, with not enough definition of space between it and the dining/kitchen area. Grant Hildebrand, in his wonderful book The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloy...

It has the added advantage of a large pile of what appears to be original bricks leftover. You could really do a good renovation with all that.

https://i.imgur.com/cz5XnOD.jpg I'm quite happy with this. The roof angles look good, and I adjusted the angles under the bedroom overhangs. To me, the elegance of the design is really starting to show. The chimney is for a later date. I've been thinking about the best way to tackle the mess of the...

Lurid indeed, but I adore it. The drawing sold back in 2008 for $11,280. Quite frankly, that seems like a deal for such a striking piece, and at 18x30 it's a very good size.

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The John Nesbitt residence is very high on my list of future projects. My understanding is that a full set of working drawings exists, so it really shouldn't be terribly difficult to figure out.

I was unaware that Arch Oboler was meant to be extensive. There is just so much Wright out there, eh?

We have three totally different chimneys here. The compact one in plan, the gargantuan cliff in elevation, and the in-between version of the perspective. For now I'm going to keep it with the plan. Once I've got the roofs figured out, we can start playing around with the interior spaces to see what ...

The Malibu fire made WeHo stink like Akron on fire.

I'm delighted you think my hometown would stink as it burns Roderick.

https://i.imgur.com/aZXhfDE.jpg Here is the latest attempt at the roofs. I think this looks much better. In your comments, please only look at the angles of the roofs. Yes, I realize the diamond shaped windows are gone - they're very difficult to make and I don't want to re-insert them until I know...

An "unholy mess" indeed Roderick. But yet if you look at the elevation, and that gargantuan mountain of a chimney, the extents of it would line up nicely with the columns to either side of the chimney as shown in plan. SDR- Thank you for all the pictures of Nakoma. They are helpful in tryi...

SDR, I agree that it would be nearly impossible to accurately model a complex 3D object from only one photo. Perspective can play tricks at times and you can't trust a single view. I also agree that components may be the single most important part of a successful SketchUp model. Anyone who doesn't u...

It is Sketchup! The trick to the complicated roofs is to start small and just keep adding elements. Getting those skylights in there was the really hard part though.

Just keep at it and you'll get there. I'm completely self taught. And remember that Youtube is amazing for this kind of thing.

Can anyone please recommend other similar projects to look at - places I can steal some details from? I'm already looking at the E.A. Smith House, Nakoma Clubhouse, and Auldbrass. Any others, built or unbuilt I should be aware of? I know I need to just sit down and go through my Taschen volumes.