Wright Chat

Interesting short article. I do not dismiss the continuing relevance of this project. Some of Wright's justifications for it may be obsolete, but the form as it stands, independently of all that, in my judgement, is not obsolete. I know Wright did not spell this out, but one fundamental "law&q...

Peter Cresswell in "What Is Architecture?" (his rebuttal to those who think architecture is not art, and well worth reading) quotes Lao Tzu, who Wright famously paraphrased: "What is the essence of the cup?" It is the space within that makes the cup useful." For those inter...

Hmmm ... Amazon reports the publishing date as 15 November 2011, while Anat Geva's Frank Lloyd Wright's Sacred Architecture is due out on 27 October.

Though technically not "shed", two roofs at Taliesin could easily be put in that category, as the "returns" are not much more than an eyebrow to the structure. I refer to the roofs over the former chicken coops and the pig pen at the far northwest end of the complex. The "re...

Rood: It would appear to me that you want to have twenty cents each way on this matter. Initially you claimed that you heard Olgivanna say that both she and FLLW had reservations with regard to the stone masonry of the living room wall. Given the well documented evidence that he had no tolerance fo...

My experience with stone masonry has led me to appreciate that each mason develops his own sense of pattern. If one wants a building with ‘uniform’ walls, it will be necessary to specify the size of stones required, and employ a single mason to lay them up. There's always Frank Lloyd Wright's v...

And the removal of drywall in 1996 to the right of the fireplace in Taliesin's big guest bedroom, and to the north wall when work was done in the area to fix a leak. I can't find a photograph of it on the internet, although a picture of it is in Kathryn Smith's book Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin an...

Yes, see "Wright House Remuddle in Phoenix? ... currently on page 3 at this site.

An inventory should be developed of anything added by Olga to TW. Or added at her request by FLW. This should all be removed as part of the restoration. She had poor aesthetic judgement (sic). The gold plaster wall over stone in the living room and the pink plaster wall over stone in the guest bedr...

I think it's important (and I think this is the point the Pratts make) that we not reduce these buildings to just works of art, forgetting their origin as true living architecture. Jim M wrote: "Here! Here! That is precisely what happens to every house that becomes "historic". They g...

Chicago architect designs 1,000 meter (2/3 mile)tall skyscraper for Jedda, Saudi Arabia


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43988244/ns ... _n_africa/

Thank you, Mr. Maguire. You bring good news.

Do you know if it's possible to post a floor plan of the new structure, here?

The Grants became disillusioned with their house or their architect ? That's news to me. Tell us more ? SDR I'm afraid "totally disillusioned" goes a bit far. The Grants were extremely proud of having built a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ... and who wouldn't. In doing so, and in d...

"The property drops off very suddenly. Just to build the house, we had to put up a 14-foot-high retaining wall that ran 160 feet across. It looked like the side of a highway. But the reward was a narrow shelf of land perfectly suited to perching the house: a long rectangle of glass with a terra...

I for one am forever grateful to the Sikoras for restoring the Willey House. What they have done is fantastic, and they should be commended for their vision. I only wonder why someone would put such love and devotion ... not to speak of money ... into saving a great work of architecture and then jus...