Video: 'Ralph Moreland House - Austin, Texas - 1956 - Unbuilt'

[DavidC]

Hugo (and Steve) gives us another gem!

Frank Lloyd Wright - Ralph Moreland House - Austin, Texas - 1956 - Unbuilt - (6:03)


David

[Roderick Grant]

Love the '55 Caddy and Chevy! And the string orchestra.
This has the feel of the Patrick Kinney and Russell Kraus Houses in CMU rather than stone or brick.

[Tom]

Nice video.
Seems like one of the better designs of this late type.
Thanks for posting.

[SDR]

For those who like to see the source material: https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Wr ... =1;size=24

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[SDR]

This is an unusual plan, perhaps a unique one ? Can anyone cite a close cousin ? It's unlike Kraus or Palmer, two likely equilateral-triangle candidates. The layout is fresh, a sight for tired old eyes . . .

or is it just sub-Wright, work of an apprentice ? It's from the busy-busy late '50s at Taliesin.

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[jay]

Great work Hugo and Steve--always a pleasure!
The opening 360 shot so nicely illustrates the great siting.

All of the drawings show CMU and rounded-plaster fascia, as in the video.
Except the perspective drawing, which appears to have desert masonry and decorative copper fascia(?):
https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/286 ... 0313632381

[Roderick Grant]

I believe I see an error in the drawing: At the 1:15 shot at the point where the terrace 'prow' meets the ground-level door, the wall converts from slightly battered to perfectly vertical. That is contrary to the Artstor drawing #6. And yet #4 plan appears to show the wall with the stairs with no batter. You don't "change horses in midstream."

(Those stairs in many of the hex plans that follow the grid are tricky to navigate, easy to trip on. FLW just couldn't help himself. He had to follow grid no matter what.)