Wright Chat

Avery Archives lists Grant as a 1946 project.
The article about Grant on the Historical Preservation website
says the Grants had never heard of Wright until 1945 and
went to Taliesin and met him that same year.
Seems like Farnsworth and Grant really are peers in time.

Thanks Jeff
Much appreciated
I’ll see what I can do and share here as well

Farnsworth was designed in 1945.
Sounds like Grant was designed 42-43

Interesting comparison to the Price house in Oklahoma.

You have to send them an email. Plans are free at low res to make building difficult. Interesting. I'm wondering if Mr. Myers would share his link and contact with Wright Chat? In this way we some of us could decide as a group what we would like to see and then petition Avery for some screen shots....

P.S.
The Grant House and the Farnsworth House are almost exactly contemporary.
Yet,
The Grant's moved into their house Christmas 1950.
Construction began on Farnsworth in 1951.

The idea that the reinforcement in the roof is 4x8 sheets of expanded metal mesh confounds me. Is that the same stuff used for plaster walls? It's obviously a brilliant idea, I guess, in that the resistance it is intended to provide would be spread so evenly. Yet how one would calculate I have no cl...

I have the same question about the Avery Archive?

Umm, maybe I'll get that little book.
Yeah, building that today would make a big difference:
super light weight concrete mixes
and a better insulation strategy.

Insulated glass would make some difference.
A geothermal heating system would help take heating costs
down too.

Still ...

Remember the Heritage Auction site has some blueprints up. (On site search: Frank Lloyd Wright Grant House). The structural mullions at the sash detail are 2 - 3x3x3/8" steel tees back to back - essentially cruciform columns. Their "slenderness ratio" is cut by a third at the horizont...

You've got to be correct about that.
No way those steel angles are notched.
They've got to be continuous.
Therefore the outriggers are supported between the roof fascia boards
and the new steel with maybe some new wood bolted on.
I keep forgetting how typical a detail that is for Wright.

I don't get this: Roof section of Tarantino restoration documentation shows long steel angles being introduced to reinforce cantilever. The angles are installed open side down. Without notching the steel angles, I don't understand what I'm looking at in these pictures: http://www.tarantinostudio.com...

Yeah - I think the exterior paving is later and I think
it's a mistake - for some reason.
Color is one reason.
Something about it doesn't seem to come off.

What would you say most of the interior wood walls are
redwood?

certainly in strong agreement with the arguments posted here.

Forced air heating.
Beautiful house from the good oil days.
...when we thought the planet would live forever