Wright Chat

The original working drawings to Pope show the steel.

The meadow is the design. It is not already there. The design is not only platonic ring it is also the meadow.

Always wondered about this. Anybody know what his record at the University in Madison was like? My interpretation has always been that he aced the engineering courses and felt that further pursuit would waste his time. But I don't know.

The aerials of the project remind me immediately of Broadacre.

Never seen these articles before or the color interior photographs. Thanks for posting, much appreciated.

Enjoyed this article. Did not know that Taliesin was a village, or if I did I had forgotten.

Not sure I agree completely. Sure, working drawings as fully realized do not exist. I understand that and I'd always heard he reserved at least 10% of his professional fee for field work. Given that plus the sending of an apprentice to each job , well and in the early years sleeping on the job site,...

Found out that the Bruce Goff archive at the Art Institute of Chicago has a little bit of Wright working drawings, which includes 9 sheets of Unity Temple originals from 1909.

DavidC
Thank you

Follow through on updating NKSmith's thesis on Wright and Romanticsim. I have in mind Denise Gigante's book: Life: Organic Form and Romanticism . Second, Nicholas Hamli's book: The Geneology of the Romantic Symbol ." I was introduced to these scholars through the podcast from Stanford called En...

Wow. There's got to be a connection. Got to be.
SDR? You know anything about this?

DavidC
Obviously I've missed the discussion of the Fresnal Lens in the literature on Wright. Feeling a little stupid right now. Do you know a place where this is discussed?

Education Professor:
Could you post the link to the Dahlstrand book on blurb.com. I tried to find it there using the search function but no luck. Blurb is new to me, no clue how to navigate it well.

Wow, never heard of Olaf Dahlstrand. Thanks.

Goffmachine: The patent drawing of the Johnson Wax glass reminds me of the following. About twenty years ago now I was touring the Point Bonita lighthouse off the coast of San Francisco. You get really close to the lantern there and it occurred to me that it bore a very close resemblance to Johnson ...