Wright Chat

SWEET.

This is gonna be good. Looking forward to it.

Thanks Modmom for keeping us up to date. If I lived close I'd volunteer.
Saw a large Tony Smith sculpture outside the Detroit Art Institute this summer -really good.

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Love the remark from Mies. Never heard that before.

Interesting that Wright puts himself at the bottom of the primary list and Laotze at the top. Laotze being known for a famous aphorism along these lines: "the foundation of the high is low."

Egaads! that's because I don't know what else to say.

Are the floors really that thin? Some kind of solid decking? Seems noisy.

I think I was the source of the confusion.
No big deal really, but I think an architect is mainly responsible for the form of this house.

I'd never heard that before Mark. It explains a lot about this house. What else was Wright working on at the time?

Whoa, I'd be interested in that too.

Thanks Paul. Hard to keep things straight sometime. I really enjoyed my time in Michigan. Next visit I want to tour Saarinen's GM Campus in Warren. Does anybody know how to do that? From what I've been able to gather you really have to know someone to get in for a tour. Is that true. I could not fin...

Sorry about the duplicate posts here. Not sure what happened. So looks like the owner was the architect. So much for my skepticism. Last month I stayed in Ann Arbor for a week and did a lot of walking, especially around the Michigan campus. Alden Dow did their administration building bordering a sma...

Compression and tension are reversed in cantilever beams: rebar on top taking tension while the concrete takes the compression on the bottom.
No such thing as a pure concrete beam.

Compression and tension are reversed in cantilever beams: rebar on top taking tension while the concrete takes the compression on the bottom.
No such thing as a pure concrete beam.

Disappearing dining table?