Wright Chat

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877 "The whole point is that dictators’ homes aren’t for one’s family, friends or private self; they’re not a refuge from the world or the job. Dictators’ homes, in fact, are the job—a place to d...

Here's an end-of-show montage of one I thought was very nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_4-hi554Sg And the "Post Office" re-design on this one was good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR8xC5ENQVQ Sadly, the YouTube selection is pretty limited. One would need to resort to othe...

I've stumbled upon an interesting series in the UK. It's called "The House That $100K Built", and they followed up with a spinoff called "The $100K House: Tricks of the Trade". The first concerns full builds, the second deals with renovations. The show primarily features architec...

It's pretty neat that a handful of FLLW houses are becoming available to rent overnight... I've only stayed in one, and hope the future allows more of those experiences. I think what's peculiar, at least in my thinking, is that FLLW houses are built for the "ever-changing 24 hours a day, 365 da...

So we have a president who ardently watches Fox News, and then spits the Fox News stories he sees back out at his ardent supporters, who of course are ardent Fox News watchers.... I believe this is called a "positive feedback loop", which means the absurdity always magnifies itself. Or in ...

One lesson of Edgar Allen Poe's "Purloined Letter" is that one might always check for what's hiding in plain sight....

http://willbruderarchitects.com/project/ruff-house/



Pretty neat stuff.

Happy City is a great book, I'd say the best of its contemporaries. Since I own a copy, figured I'd share the two paragraphs the author muses about Wright: "Some modern reformers argued that the secret to happiness was to escape the city altogether.... In America, the advent of the automobile p...

Peterm-- What I wanted to present here was a theoretical question, but yes I'm considering doing it. I'll send you a PM with more specific details, and would love your insight, but I'd rather not turn this thread into a detailed personal discussion. I just don't feel comfortable with that.

Tim-- thanks for the personal account. Sending you a PM...

Peterm-- I was trying to keep this thread more general than personalized. But yeah, I'd hire an architect.

You guys have such great insights to offer! As to my "perception of what organic means", I'd say that the primary focus is the end result, as in how the building makes the person feel. The FLLW buildings I've visited (and especially the Usonians, perhaps due to their intimacy of a smaller ...

The question is, is one going for the Wrightian "look", or the principles that underlie his work which may not necessarily yield his look when applied I'm sure plenty of people would be interested in "the look". But that's not what I'm curious about. The principles--the design e...

I suppose I'd envision more of a "full-gut" renovation than a remodel scenario. Something older and smaller, perhaps a rancher or cottage. Definitely not a McMasion, or anything that would require a renovation that subtracts value. (Not because you wouldn't like to take a sledge hammer to ...

I'm hoping to start a conversation about renovations to pre-existing generic houses. Perhaps this topic has been covered in previous threads, but I wasn't able to find any. First off, obviously "organic" starts from the ground up, and therefore, a renovated common house has significant obs...

I agree that the Hitler talk is obnoxious. Also: https://tinyurl.com/coft5ex I think it's more appropriate to frame Trump in organic terms-- "Faux Nationalist", "President Bannon", "Putin Wannabe", "Commander-in-Tweet". Trump won an election, against a poor op...

You can stay overnight in "Stoneflower": http://plansmatter.com/view-rentals/sto ... ngs-ar-usa