Wright Chat

I'm so glad someone stopped it from falling down.



Tip from webmaster: The "no breaking space" is nbsp; and must have the semicolon after the nbsp.

All I am trying to say is that an exact FLLW Usonian house CAN be built today as FLLW designed it. No - that's utterly incorrect. At least , in New Zealand, anyway. Check the building code in any US state, and I guess it'll be similar to here now too: 1) Floor slab must drop at least 100mm to the e...

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Man, I am SOOOOO happy I live in New Zealand, where the worst attack by insects might be mud-building wasps, and all they do is build mud-based nests ON a building, rather than eat into it. I have seen some very old houses with Borer beetle, but the modern tanalising treatment for building timber ap...

IANAA - and I don't have a huge wealth of experience to draw upon, but I believe Mr. Harding to be correct. I have 3 books on Fallingwater, and a DVD. I think the story of the mad drawing session, from nothing except ideas, in the time it took Edgar to drive to the studio, coupled with the radical c...

Anonymous wrote:I challenge anyone to deny Gary Oldham the role of Wright.

Yeah - Gary is an extremely fine actor who would be more than able to accurately portray Frank, and I would suggest at ANY age, also.

And I repeat: what is it about tiny, compressed, amateurish, pixelated photos which get real estate agents so excited? Those look like they were taken on a camera phone.

It is a source of constant annoyance to me, that real estate agents invariably think that amateurish, under exposed, pixelated and compressed images will sell a home.

Hi people. Our Jacobs-derived design is a few steps closer - this week it goes to the local council for "Resource Consent" - which is where we try to convince them that our design is so good that we should be allowed to break several local building rules... Wish us luck! My original concep...

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Another vote for Pauson.



I wish there were just more photos of it!

I sent Florian a bunch of photographs, the original drawings, and a good floor plan. I'm looking forward to seeing the model when completed.

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There are numerous details about the house which might be tricky to locate. I'll see what I can do to find them within my collection of stuff about the GW house. I'll see what Storer has to say about it too. There is also some controversy I think: the plans were modified without FLW's permission pri...

War and wars will be paid for by taxes on the rich, and only the rich. We will raise taxes on the rich to pay for the Iraq war. During the Second World War, taxes on the rich rose to 95%. We will reinstitute that to pay for the Iraq war. Sorry - not if you want to get elected. That's impossible wit...