Wright Chat

Also, second shot down from top in the upper righthand corner
- what's going on there?
Razorback beam thingy?

Nice observation between roof and water table.

Yeah, I think I read in one of those articles it was intended as a temporary building.
The photograph suffices for preservation.

Yes.
Hard for me to understand the cottage as Wright until seeing that shot:

https://www.dwell.com/article/booth-cot ... 2661414912

A photograph here tells me I don't know this house very well at all: wall, perf, roof eave - pretty cool: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/architecture/articles/2019/may/21/marc-jacobs-bought-this-house-but-the-car-didn-t-come-with-it/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PHBTNL2...

Developer Henry Stinson: "It also sort of reinforces the idea of the hotel as a destination for events," said Stinson. "The other thing is that it's such an architectural landmark. It's a selfie place and that's something very important to buildings now. Pictures. People don't read an...

Hard to focus on an extensive daylighting lecture without the visual component.

Yeah, that’s the book l’ve got.
Very informative.
It’s got a picture in there of him and his daughter Kiki when she was small drawing together

I remember when the East Wing first opened.
Pei was photographed in the Washington Post sweeping the entrance stones with a broom.

Yes the landings are dead flat and
The drawings show the entire parapet canted.

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshae ... 00015v.jpg

So in the 1956 shot by Joe Price the "fins" running down the left side of the Tower are stair landings to the stairs.
The ones Rood walked down.
Not realized this before but they are open to the air.
Literally a "fire escape" like Rood said.

You just click on the image.
Im on a Mac, when my cursor hovers over the image
a magnifying glass with a plus sign appears.
It lets me enlarge 2 times.
It's like the Visions of Wright site.
But I did copy them and will send to you.
I've never seen this version of the project either.
Pretty cool.

https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2019/06/important-design-including-post-war-contemporary-art/414 https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2019/06/important-design-including-post-war-contemporary-art/413 They're ramps. didn't realize this before but you can enlarge these drawings by a factor of 2. The ram...

But look at the drawing.
That is not what was built.