Wright Chat

Yes I see Callister was not an apprentice. I googled him and found, among other things, a 1999 newsletter of the Northern California Taliesin Fellows, reporting on a Callister lecture and referring to him as "a prodigious and gifted designer, never an apprentice of Wright, by an inspiring deliv...

This is a very interesting subject which deserves a lot of thought. Who succeeded and why? why not? Which of the apprentices can be called "Wrightian" if adherence to the style, or some principles is the criterion? Which of the apprentices became excellent architects taking the deeper prin...

An amusing anecdote told to me by Mrs. Richardson (the origninal client, with her husband, of the Stuart Richardson house, Glen Ridge, N. J., 1941). When Mr. Wright showed them the plans, she said something like, I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I want a window in the kitchen. Mr. Wright replie...

Jeez. If someone want to take a FLlW house and preserve it as it was on day one, fine. We need those. If someone else wants to consider the house a living organism and evolve it as FLlW did himself, and adapt it to the changed lifestyle 50 years after FLlW died, fine. We need those examples too. Aft...

pharding wrote:A new message board on this web site called the Wright Classifieds would help to get reduce the repetitive, shameless commercialization of many posts.

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Yes Wright Plus is a great event and yes the Heurtley house is terriffic. Just for the record, the Heurtley House was open for Wrtight Plus on May 18, 2002. The house was purchased by Edward and Diana Baehrend in the summer of 1997. They spent 18 months on the restoration, and another couple of year...

I had the priviledge to visit with Mrs. Stuart Richardson in their hexagonal module Usonian in Glen Ridge New Jersey (designed 1939 - 41 and built ten years later). The living room of that house is triangular, with, in plan, V-shaped butresses in the three corners. One is the fireplace, one the util...

Google the Stuart Richardson House (FLLW) and also Tarantinostudio.com and you will see photos and explanation of this recent project replacing the radiant floor in a Usonian.

I have not seen this house in the flesh, but from the photographs it looks pretty good. (I will not comment on the housekeeping skills of the current resident). The ceilings were undoubtedly sand float plaster (which unpainted, werre beige). When the roof leaks, the water stains are indellible and m...

I think perhaps why this house may not be as well known as some others is that it is still in the owerneship of the Walkers. Della was 75 when she commissioned this small house for herself. Several years later, she got married, and that is when she had her grand -nephew Sandy Walker, AIA design the ...

I was fortunate enough to visit the Glore house around 1965, just as new owners from Calfornia had moved in. The sand float ceilings were then still unpainted. However, looking in various FLlW books on my shelf, I have seen several houses where a leaking roof left serious spots, a factor I would ima...

Can you provide proper citation for the publication so we can readily find it? Most interesting.

Yes of course that is Hilla Rebay and Solomon Guggenheim in this well publicized photo.

Aguar's "Wrightscapes" is clearly the definitive text on this subject, as already noted. It debunks a lot of hooey, finds even more FLlW genius heretofor unappreciated, and all based on solid research and site analysis by a very perceptive landscape architect. Highly recommended!

A fine website on a fine house! I also commend to readers Architectural Digest, August 1993, pages. 54, 56, and 58 for an article on the house; (2 exterior and 3 interior photos); and a good discussion of Arata Endo's role in bringing this house to completion.