Wright goes to Arkansas

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:00 pm

article about the deconstruction:

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article ... es-a-first

article about the involvement of the Univ. of Arkansas architecture students in the reconstruction:

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article ... ight-stuff

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:38 pm

All right! We're going to get a set of HABS drawings from this. Fantastic. Hope they document it thoroughly: ROOF FRAMING PLAN. ....pretty please? Oh man, just think of the sections.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:23 pm

Here's an interior photo. Open-riser stair, balcony parapet deep enough to conceal cantilevered floor plate, "decorative"
ceiling joists at 4'-0" centers (?). The builder was able to find 4" high fire brick -- nice.

According to W A Storrer, the house was built with mahogany, though cypress was specified.

photo Â© Alan Weintraub

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:10 pm

18 years earlier . . .

photo and plans Â© William Allin Storrer

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:20 pm

I have no idea what's going on in that roof. The "ceiling joists" ...I've seen this before in Japanese architecture. They may serve to hold the joints of the ceiling boards tight. I don't know. I would not think that the ceiling boards themselves are discontinuous and that the "ceiling joists" extend up above them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88017382@N ... otostream/

In the B&W shot of the "early 70's" - Bachman Wilson living room. the ceiling looks like panels and not boards.

Where did you find the unfurnished interior shot of Jacobs? Really interesting that he attempted no transition work between the brick fireplace and the ceiling boards, like a soldier course at the top or something.

Love the way the mitered joint comes in precisely on the corner of the brick pier.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:11 pm

Yup. A sweet mystery. You're right: Storrer's photo shows a paneled ceiling plane, doesn't it.

The Jacobs I shot is one of a bunch that Futagawa published during the 'eighties, most notably in the Monographs. Being in black and white (I've tinted this one) and carefully (un)lighted, they are capable of revealing the materiality of brick and raw wood to an unusual degree. Some of these Usonians look like medieval relics to me . . .

SDR

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:08 am

article: Students Build Pavilion for Crystal Bridges

http://www.uatrav.com/news/article_760a ... b2370.html

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 9:28 am

A friend sent me a copy of an article on the moving of the Bachman-Wilson House from the New Yorker Magazine of March 10, 2014 titled: Second Act Dept.: FIXER UPPER.

It is behind a paywall on the internet (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine), but if someone has a subscription they could get in and copy and paste it into the Chat Board to share with everybody.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:18 am

I have the issue, and will post the short but pithy and informative article later this morning. . . if no one beats me to it. Thanks for the tip, Paul.

SDR

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:29 am

Looking forward to that. Cool.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:26 pm

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:19 pm

Thanks SDR, you're the best.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:47 am

He cried?

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:32 am

Is that at all surprising? Imagine the hours of thought, work, joy, and adrenaline filled near death encounters that they have experienced with that house. To restore a work of that quality and beauty, only to have it repeatedly flooded, then to imagine dismantling it, stick by stick, and saying goodbye...couldn't that take its toll on even the most stoic person's emotions?

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:05 pm

You've convinced me.