Wright Chat

Paul:
The first building you note is a Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the second is a natural history museum in Gainesville, Florida.

Wow is right. What an appropriate and well composed piece of 3D modeling. I was particularly fascinated by the sculptural elegance of the hollow columns...I knew lighting was incorporated in them, but I was not aware of how the underlying concrete structure was configured. The column's structure cou...

from the link:

With its ghosts, motorcycles, portraits, Vikings, and....

Motorcycles?.....VIKINGS?!


"Well, there you are!" - FLLW

This extreme approach is a product of the current Obama Administration. The Bush Administration did not pursue taxpayers for minute technical reasons like the current administration. Not to be an apologist, but declining tax revenues wrought by the high rate of unemployment since 2008 has led the I...

The letter also provides an interesting back story to TAA's Sorensen house commission and a probable answer as to why the house is often credited to Wes Peters rather than Davy Davison. Thread on the house here: http://www.savewright.org/wright_chat/viewtopic.php?t=3191&highlight=davison In the ...

Good suggestion Laurie, Mr. Tucker's Sonoma Mountain Top house is particularly appealing to me.

Guggenheimer's book was a great survey history, but by no means able to give each architect the full coverage of a monograph, biography, or memoir. I suspect it may become a "one stop shop" for architectural historians searching for prospective Taliesin connected monograph subjects. An int...

classic form:

Have you selected a white for your ceiling?

Looks like my post crossed yours in cyberspace. Glad to hear you found a good ceiling color.

I didn't know that weather vane was a Nelson design...it looks very Boeing. I've seen that model many times before, but never knew its source.

classic form: Have you selected a white for your ceiling? Wright's 1950 Sweeton house is a rare instance of a Usonian era house with a painted ceiling (sand finish paint on drywall). The ceiling has been repainted in non original colors several times, but I have found areas of original color above d...

Where there is money and ignorance, there will be tear downs of good buildings. Just to your north Jeff, the demolition a few years ago of Cliff May's Star View Farm house for the Price Sr.'s may have seemed to most like just another 50's "Rancher" being lost to changing tastes in homes, b...

Well, stir up a pitcher of martinis and put a bossa nova record on the hi-fi...

What's to bash? the color scheme is appropriate to the house and the period from which it sprang. I like the look.

Thanks for posting this Hypnoraygun...a great idea for a website and a great way to possibly steer (or tempt) Fay Jones enthusiasts toward stewardship.

I wonder if there was a connection between Ms. Roberts and her father in Wright's obtaining the 1906 K.C. DeRhodes commission in South Bend?

Deke wrote: but deed restrictions typically lower the value of a home by preventing it's tear-down and the use the land it sits on. Few home-owners are willing to diminish the value of their property in that way. That is the mindset that must be stopped. Monetary value at resale should not be the pr...

Laurie Virr wrote: Sitting in my ivory tower, it appeared peripheral to the situation regarding the preservation of the two houses on their existing sites. The view from the tower should never be discounted. My pragmatism has served me well, but in matters such as this, my tree vs. forest view will ...