Wright Chat

Oh! - the whole thing has a hipped roof.
I didn't realize that.
I thought the balcony side was like Sturges and then somebody threw
a hipped roof over the carport.

These drawings change things for me.
Thanks for posting them, look forward to studying -
Couldn't find the Sander thread.

I agree with Matt2 - kinda reminds me of the cantilever at Wingspread over undramatically flat ground. Of course I know NOTHING about Sander, but the black gate strikes me as something Wright would not have done, first the color and second - overall just too heavy. Then there is the surprising hippe...

with Zimmermanesque perfs.
One can't help but wonder just how much Wright really was involved.

Never heard of this house before.

Sander?

Your in the specs!
Very cool

... and don't ya know that the Price house in Bartlesville would have worked something like this too.
There would have been none of those stupid skinny poles
Kills me

Yes,
Swan house is concrete deck on big steel beams.

I thnk we've discussed the Swan house briefly before.
It's Sturges with concrete structure

Wondering why Heath has an address of 76 Soldiers Place when the only street it's on is Bird?



New developments at AK:
https://www.albrightknox.org/campus-dev ... ut-project

Yep, lesser architects would have put all glass up there. This element in Wright's work intrigues me. Such an abrupt contrast between lower windows and doors and upper clerestory wood "oculi" (?) Where does this come from in Wright? Is it in part an anti glare device somewhat like Kahn? My...

Hurrah indeed. The house looks drop dead gorgeous - especially compared to the before pictures. Judging by the before pictures one would think FLLW was a crap architect. In some sense it's not the same house as the "before". I'd love to know a lot of technical stuff here. My main question ...

Speaking of Fredrick:
https://www.dwell.com/article/fredrick- ... af0b/cover

ha! ... keeping their overhead low?

This one too was not there a couple of days ago. https://fineart.ha.com/itm/decorative-arts/frank-lloyd-wright-american-1867-1959-three-drawings-and-renderings-of-the-maurice-greenberg-house-ottawa-/a/5378-79102.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ArchiveSearchResults-012417&lotPosition=0...