Wright Chat

“The Great Outage of ‘17� works for me.

Malone is sweet...the battered block melds well with the lapped boards. I have to think Robert knew of Schindler, Lloyd, and Wright’s efforts at Pauson and Suntop with forms and details like this.

The Ukrainian house is not without merits. A shame the kitchen is not shown...would Khrushchev and Nixon find it debatable?

That is a key point...separating the artist from the art. It is becoming more and more difficult for the lions of the arts to stand up to today's scrutiny...I've had the sense that virtuous, empathetic, moralistic, all round great guys and gals with no skeletons or peccadillos, are rare in the art a...

The Goodman Theater program is from the infamous "Movements" demonstration that Curtis Besinger noted in his book as being a "proxy war" between Frank and Olgivanna: Frank's drafting room staff vs. Olgivanna's Movements set. The Goodman show was being prepped just as the 60 Years...

Robert Moses was the director of City Planning in NYC from the '30's to the '60's. His efforts were positive or negative depending on your viewpoint. He was responsible for much of the public bridge and highway development that modernized transportation around the city and enabled rampant suburbaniz...

I remember this house on Chat about 10 or more years ago. It has some Goffian moments which are not necessarily bad. It might show better empty.

I do hope Andrew reaches out to homeowners prior to arriving with camera in hand....houses often can be "not ready for prime time": trash cans & recycling bins lying about, unwashed and or poorly styled cars blocking views in drives, patio furniture stacked in winter hibernation, wind ...

The house by Leon Lee at 7 Hollow Glen looks to be influenced more directly by E. Fay Jones than by FLLW.....a very neat house. The blurb indicates Lee worked with Karl Kamrath at some point.

In the less than rarified world in which I practice, when hand drafting I often had to draw such things that were not "whole number" angles...roof pitches for the most part are not: 4in12=18.4 degrees, 5in12= 22.6 degrees, 10 in12= 39.8 degrees. Does this mean Hugh Newell Jacobsen owns onl...

Say what you will about adjustable triangles, but they make drawing site plans, particularly the parking, and sloped roofs on elevations much faster. The world is not composed of only 30, 45, 60, and 90 degree angles.

You may throw your smart-ass comments now.

Other than the fires, I know relatively little about the incremental changes of Taliesin, which I suspect occurred almost seasonally. Are the floor material changes indicative of edges of former iterations of the room? A presence of the absence perhaps?

Among that group of drawings was a badly weathered rendering of the memorial garden (envisioned by who?) presumaby to contain the ashes of FLW & OLW after his remains had been snatched back from Wisconsin. Rather than being incorporated into an existing wall, it appears to be out in the landsca...

Pat, know that you are in our thoughts and have our support through this difficult loss. May you find peace.

The exterior has some elements reminiscent of Schiffner’s work at TAA, notably in the metalwork, and his Native American motifs seen in his work on local highway concrete structures is recalled in the graphic glass block openings. The interior seems unrelated to the exterior which is decidedl...

Welcome Richard. ...does anyone know if my parents are the only original owners of a Wright home who also lived in a home built by one of the Wright apprentices? The VanTamelen's who lived in an FLW Erdman Prefab #1 moved to California and bought the house Aaron Green designed for the Hughes family.