Wright Chat

I too got hooked on Wright early. In 1976 when I was 10, I was rumaging through a magazine pile at my grandparent's house. In the pile, I found a 1956 issue of Arizona Highways that featured Wright's work to that point in and around Phoenix. The pictures and plans had me spellbound. On a later visit...

The bit about the Kaden Tower being based on a "Hotel design for India" by Wright has always bothered me. I've never found an Indian hotel project in the Monographs. I did find a design for a department store in India from the '40's or '50's which is similar only in that it is several stor...

I enjoyed each one while eating my lunch yesterday. Great pics. Mr. Harding's Davenport house looks fantastic. That tour alone would have made the trip for me. On page 3 there are two buildings: a Prairie-esque house and a circular building; what are those? Were they on the itinerary, or were they h...

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SDR: You wondered what the soffit material is on the Walker House. It is a striated plywood product called Weldtex which was developed by an industrial designer named Donald Deskey in the 1940's. It was popular in the '40's and '50's and disappeared from the market in the '60's or early 70's. My gra...

High end of wealth scale for residential clients: Darwin Martin, Avery Coonley, Aline Barnsdall, EJ Kaufmann, Loeb, and HC Price. Low end: Hands down..Jim Berger for the magnum opus "Eddie's dog house"; seriously.. Seth Peterson, Herbert Jacobs, and Raymond Carlson. I guess a good measure ...

Though not an apprentice to Wright or Howe, an architect by the name of Kelly Davis, AIA at SALA Architects has a body of work which has the "feel" of Wright and Howe. In fact, Davis designed a renovation project for a house designed by Howe. Check out his work at: http://www.salaarc.com/f...

Thanks for posting these pics! I hope a book of Howe's work post 1959 materializes someday. I had the pleasure doing a drive-by of Howe's Royston Cottage (1961-69) in the Philly 'burbs not long ago. It wasn't very visible, even with leaves off the trees, but what little I could see appeared to be on...

Hypnoraygun- The article you posted from "enquirer.com" dated August 16, 2003 is the Usonian house in Ohio, I noted in my list. Thanks for finding it. I couldn't remember where I saw it. If you compare the house in the pictures to the houses illustrated in the Goetsch-Winckler book, "...

I've never read "The Lost Years". It's on my list of books to read, but I haven't gotten to it. Maybe I should piggyback its reading with the new book about the Taliesin tragedy. Cause and effect.

John Rattenbury, Charles Montooth, Kamal Amin,.... Wes, Jack?

These are the Legacy projects that I know of: Nakoma Club House @ Gold Mountain First Christian Church Phoenix Blue Sky Masoleum in Buffalo The two versions of the Burlingham Pottery House: one in Phoenix, one in New Mexico. The Usonian house originally designed for Bell built in California in the '...

This thread has touched on an important and relatively silent chapter of Wright's career, 1914 to 1932, that has intrigued me as long as I have studied Wright. In a research paper I wrote in 1981 when I was in 9th grade, I noted Wright's buildings changed after the fire at Taliesin. Even at that ten...

It's harder to be a patron of the arts when your "art" is not located where your family or career is located. Typically, the patron buys a Calder or a Klimt and takes to their home. It is a very different prospect to buy a piece of art then have to move your family and career to be with th...

The website makes reference to Wright in a quote and in the graphics of the logo. I'm not sure it copies the Hickox house, but do I see clear references to American Arts and Crafts era houses. If one were to compare the house to Wright's work, I would agree the roof slopes and window shapes remind m...