Wright Chat

Gotta love Mark Schindler's footer to his posts at Lotta Living:

"Modern? Lived it "

Indeed.

The obituary notes that Mark Schindler attended Black Mountain College... I wonder if Mark crossed paths with Buckminster Fuller while there.

Laurie. What is the nature of the additional material added to the code? Planning and zoning code changes here usually do one of two things: 1. Add regulation and hoops to be traversed that serve to complicate a process that leads to the same result as before. This is seemingly done to raise operati...

Thanks for posting the link to the photo. Is it just me, or does the composition of the photo: the centering of the vertical tower and the tea circle in the frame, look unsettling? My mind's eye keeps wanting to crop the shot to place the tower to one side of the frame. The B&W shot of the "...

I wonder if the architect of record for the project, Jeff Baker, of Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects may be able to shed more light on the original documentation used as reference. http://www.mcwb-arch.com/contact/index.html See also this article: http://chronicle.com/blogs/buildings/florida-sou...

I fail to see how the stonework became such a problem, insulation or not. If the constraints were to provide a given level of thermal resistance to the wall while still maintaining the original thickness, then the stone would have to be cut thin and the wall formed as an outer and inner shell with i...

If I'm not mistaken, the price included the land and all development and construction related costs to rehabilitate/restore an adjacent existing house as part of the visitor's center, and the new Wright house. The new house is being built to a remarkable level of craft...far in excess of the origina...

peterm: Is there sufficient land adjacent to your apartment building that the Schindler/Wright's Irving cottage could be set up and restored? Pros: 3 major architects on one site. Could provide an element of human scale to the site. Apartment residents could own as a time share guest cottage. Cons: ...

I think there is a true art to the design of a storefront that has somehow been lost in this country over the last 50 to 60 years, probably due to increasing dependence on personal cars and the shift of population out of pedestrian oriented commercial streets. Also, the fall of the blue laws which p...

Roderick wrote:

He stayed on site, living in a tent during construction of this house, micromanaging the entire process,

"Kitty" must have been thrilled.

outside in posted a pic of one of my favorites, Sullivan's Krause Music Store. Here is a link to a brief history with some restoration pics:

http://ggcinc.net/HistoricRestoration_Krause.html

Paul, are your concerns rooted in the proximity and size of the new construction, or, the literal interpretation/replication of the original's grammar on such a tight site? The level of detail and craftsmanship on another project by the firm, a Greene and Greene composite/tribute, is quite good...no...

I looked on Google Earth at the address of the building listed in the article: 700 E. Oakwood Blvd. Chicago, IL, and viewed it in street view. I was surprised to see two late 19th century church buildings in the immediate vicinity of Wright's. A brick Richardsonian Romanesque building at about 725 E...

An interesting discussion, which brings to mind the sculptor Richard Serra and the architect Peter Eisenman. Both have ventured "across the aisle" into each other's profession with what some might term negative results. Serra's "Tilted Arc" http://minimalissimo.com/2010/11/tilted...

I wonder where the three signature tiles on the desk ended up.