Wright Chat

Regarding the dumbing down of our environment for avoidance of lawsuits and ADA strictures written by lawyers not architects: I just returned from Amsterdam where I visited the new residential neighborhoods of the Eastern Docklands. I was delighted to walk along the waterfront with no rails, and to ...

I too saw and photographed the "model house" when it was erected at the Marin County Civic Center in 1990 as a part of the "In the Realm of Ideas" exhibition. The book by the same name, essentially the exhibition catalogue, includes a rendering of the unbuilt Sussman House on pag...

This chair is being "advertised" as Heurtley in SF. The marvelous 1996 - 2001 restoration of Heurtley included two reconstructions of this chair, purportedly from original plans for Heurtley.

According to published reports, the metal angle brackets at Pope were originally in the wall itself, and indeed the shelves were an essential stiffening device for the end wall of the living room. Mounting them on the surface was one of the several terrible decisions made the first time the house wa...

How wonderful to see these excellent pictures, and learn of the ongoing restoration. I had the great opportunity to visit with Mrs. Stuart Richardson (and photograph) the Richardson House in 1962. It is a truly spatially exciting house, with magnificent woodwork. In 1962, the site was quite undevelo...

Lawyers, janitors and fire chiefs will rule the world if we let them.

At the SF Giants stadium, the umpire's locker room has all signs in braille.

So don't let them. Fight back.

Yes! More pictures please. I am anxious to see the real color both inside and outside. The posted photos show some warm to very cold colors. Which is it? In any case, one of the most spatially exciting of Wright's many spatially exciting houses! Ennis sometimes gets a bad rap as "too monumental...

A magnificent house when I visited it in the early 1960s. A magnificent house today. Thanks to all those of you who have been such good stewards and adapted this 50 year old house for 21st. century family life.

And may the new owner be an equally good steward.

I was alarmed to read in the August 2007 Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians (www.sah.org) the following quote in an article about a recent SAH study tour of Japan: "Frank Lloyd Wright's school" (Jiyu Gakuen Girl's School), "the only surviving Wright site in Japan, w...

The new design really makes me want to stop using this site - too small gray typeface on gray background – I think FLlW would have designed something both beautiful AND legible, were he here today and putting up a website.

This is all way too small to read. It fills up about 1/6 of the screen window. Please do not tell me to do this and that to increase its size. Please post it in a user-friendly way. (From what I can decipher, it looks great. Please do not make we work to enjoy it!)

If you google "Buffalo Parks" you will pull up the maps and brochure of the Olmsted Park System - an impressive and very extensive array of gracious parkways and parks not unlike Olmsted's and Jens Jensen's in Chicago (and of course Olmsted's in Boston). The Heath House adjoins Olmsted's S...

The Sunday July 29 edition of the New York Times Magazine features a quirky piece on fashion photographed in the "newly restored" Hollyhock House. While the photos feature details of small portions of the house and thus do little to "explain" the house, they do feature close-ups ...

Regarding Beuhler: There was an article on the house with a photo of Mrs. Beuhler, looking very well, in the October 1, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle. Regarding Berger: Mrs. Berger's obituary was in the San Francisco Chronicle I would guess five to ten years ago. Prior to that the house was listed fo...

Definitely watch the Brown House video. It is quite wonderful to see and hear the original clients and their children discuss this house, how it came about, and what it means to them. A real treasure.