Wright Chat

Monaghan's new religion has led him to build a arch conservative (and architecturally retrograde) Catholic college/new town in Florida called Ave Maria. Heaven help us.

If you google "inflation calculator" you will see that, at least by one calculation, $5000 in 1936 was $74,071,60 in 2007.

republished in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this week. I wouldn't have thought this was a slow news week. Frank Lloyd Wright Jailed Here; Found With Dancer at ‘Tonka Noted Architect Held With- out Charge for Bara- boo, Wis., Police. Occupied Cottage at Wild- Hurst with Mme. Olga Milanoff Since Sep...

the following old article was republished in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this week. I didn't think this was a slow news week. Frank Lloyd Wright Jailed Here; Found With Dancer at ‘Tonka Noted Architect Held With- out Charge for Bara- boo, Wis., Police. Occupied Cottage at Wild- Hurst with Mme. Ol...

RE: Buehler House perforated boards. There is an excellent article on the rebuilding of the house after the fire, (by Walter Olds, the original apprentice), in the September/October issue of Preservation Magazine. While there is not a dead-on elevation of the boards, the photographer is listed as &q...

Have you tried William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco? They carry new and used architectural books, have a a broad inventory, and are "full retail" as they say.

RE: Marin County CC roof color. I have not read anything on that, but its not hard to assume that if Olgivanna was picking colors, she picked them all. My assumption is that FLlW intended a copper roof which would turn bluish green in the damp air.

RE: Marin County Civic Center. The published story is that when it originally came time to paint the concrete, FLlW had died, and Olgivanna picked the pink, to general horror. I assume FLlW intended it to be the Gugenheim creamy beige.

If you go to www.popeleighey1940.org you will get the full chronology of the construction and two reconstructions. Somewhere I have seen photographs of Loren Pope's second house - I think in a magazine article, perhaps even on this site, some years ago. As I recall, it was an interesting, modern and...

Having been to Maui, cheesey is too complimentary for this one. While it may be a collection of Wrightian idioms, it isn't even mildly interesting in the flesh. Because it is a public building, the size of everything had to be blown up, and it completely loses any feeling of Wright.

This tragedy was inevitable - the flood plain belongs to the river. When the house came up for sale, the historic crazies fought the idea of moving the house above the flood plain – one of the many irrational standards from the Secretary of the Interior. Throughout history, buildings have been mov...

If my memory serves me right, John Sergeant's "Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses" has good pictures of the Stuart Richardson house under construction. Also, the website of the restoration architects for that house, Tarantino Studios, has photos of the repair and reconstruction of that ro...

Aaron Green/FLlW office:

The office has been removed and reerected at the Heinz Architecture Center in Pittsburg, PA.

Walker: Is right on the road, and can be viewed from the beach on either side. Better yet, contact Brooks Walker and see about seeing the interior. He is a (grand?) nephew of Della Walker the client, and as an architect is the family member in charge of maintenance of this only occasionally used hou...

Oh yes, they are steel.