Wright Chat

Noticed this recently, sorry if already posted.
What's not to like about a commercial with a Usonian (00:10)... even for Amazon.

https://youtu.be/uf5cIGDo7jc

The gallery lamps with the tassels are a delight.

If I'm remembering correctly, Wright also borrowed from his long-time patron Darwin Martin an amount exceeding $20,000 dollars to construct Taliesin 1 and settle some of his debts in Europe. Which would be something around $250k today. Martin never truly saw a repayment for this loan. That's correc...

Roderick, that would be Jaroslav Polivka (a Czech). He also worked on the Johnson Tower, the Guggenheim, and the S.F Bay crossing. The first Point Park scheme was a concrete and steel civic center 1,000 feet in diameter and 175 feet tall. Capable of holding 1/3 of the city's population it also conta...

The Coonley plaque was installed at the prow of the terrace; a points of the compass abstraction with the initials "F" & "C" (Ferry Coonley).

The Learn/Preservation thread of that link contains the complete 500+ page Preservation Master Plan for Taliesin West prepared by Harboe Architects-an unbelievable amount of history, photos, plans, and documentation to salivate over. Of interest was the justification, if obvious, for the decision no...

This is a great topic with some decent, albeit sparse, accounting and should be worth the risk buying... Schrenk is an Associate Professor of Architectural History at U of Virginia, with quite a varied output. The book resulted from a We the People grant awarded to her by The National Endowment for ...

Wright broke one of his own "rules" in order to define the masterpiece Taliesin 1 became. The house and studio certainly were influenced by the Italian countryside to a degree, but there are precedents before both Fiesole and Taliesin (such as the wood and plaster project of 1904-"The...

Same photo... see the shadow?

Can't recall where published, but as a pre-teen seeing Dow's own house "submerged" into it's pond was an architectural epiphany; and of course, Wright a revelation not long after!

That is the same photo on the book back cover... sans junior. Perhaps a subtle comment by Tokler?

I read it Stephen, a long time ago but recall it quite informative, well researched and with quite a few notes to the text. I suppose there will be criticism true of just about any book on Wright. The back of the jacket has the photo of Wright and EJ standing alongside one another at TWest in the 50...

now-unnecessary accretions that accommodated the pupils, and restore every inch of both buildings to their 1959 states. All but impossible, but restoration to the mid-late forties would convey best the architectural value of TWest. Guerrero's photos, and colored available, of that period document t...

Whadarya talking about? Zombie Sprites have taken over the garden, waterslide homage to the Guggenheim, not just organic abstractions but realistic concrete cacti encased in the walls... maybe they can find a home for Wright's saguaro mural and replace it with something more appropriate to the decor!

The first theater was destroyed "accidentally" in 1952 by Wright burning a pile of leaves nearby.