Survivalist tiny dorms at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin arch

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:10 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpvcR13_ok [21:17]

m.perrino · Post by **m.perrino** » Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:41 pm

I guess the best to be said about this vignette is that in this country we do have freedom of expression, even if it presents itself as incorrect, incompetent, uninformed and unintelligent.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:38 pm

m., how so?

Some shelters fit snuggly into their desert environment, but others are an afront to it. There's a lot of ego invested in the more elaborate designs. If at least the image of the pyramidal white tent with the desert concrete base had been maintained throughout, a sense of community could have prevailed, but it seems too helter-skelter to me.

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:56 pm

Students get . . . um, romantic. All that glass allows everyone else to see them having . . . um, romance.

I value a bit more privacy.

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:44 pm

jmcnally wrote:Students get . . . um, romantic. All that glass allows everyone else to see them having . . . um, romance. I value a bit more privacy.

It's not like they are located on 25' lots...

SREcklund · Post by **SREcklund** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:30 pm

I did the shelter tour when I was there for the FLWBC conference last month, but only saw about half of the ones in the video. I'm particularly interested in a couple in the video that look like, for lack of a better word, "micro-usonians". This one, for example ...

Hell of a lot more work in that than most of the ones I saw, save maybe Pizza Hut ...

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 7:30 pm

I too look for such. Those who make a determined effort to create a mini-home of a slightly more conventional type deserve exposure, too, I think.

Reminds me of an earlier folly of mine:

SDR

SREcklund · Post by **SREcklund** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:34 pm

SREcklund wrote:I did the shelter tour when I was there for the FLWBC conference last month, but only saw about half of the ones in the video. I'm particularly interested in a couple in the video that look like, for lack of a better word, "micro-usonians". This one, for example ...

Hell of a lot more work in that than most of the ones I saw, save maybe Pizza Hut ...

Having snagged a copy of "Under Arizona Skies" by Pffeifer and Sidy, I can say now that the structure in question is "Japanese Shelter", designed in 1992 by Ryosake Isoya.

Isoya, an apprentice from Japan who had studied traditional boatbuilding, used his woodworking skills to create a shelter with deep overhangs, which protect its wood-paneled walls from the elements. Part of the shelter cantilevers from two huge roof beams that are rooted in a massive stone chimney.

Randolph C. Henning · Post by **Randolph C. Henning** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:18 am

In support of m.perrino's post, I too had huge issues with the all too many factual errors and inaccuracies voiced by the narrator of the film.

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:03 am

m and Randolph, so list them already.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:27 pm

Indeed. The numbers of those with direct knowledge are dwindling. Now's the time . . .?

SDR

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Survivalist tiny dorms at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin arch

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