PrairieMod had a great catch today : a link to a nice post on the sprout dc weblog drawing attention to Wright’s solar hemicylce design for the Jacobs II House.
I find the home most interesting because of its relationship to the site and its integration with a landscape that extends from the north berm […]
It’s possible that I’ve posted this before, but Not PC has posted it now
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1938 Dream House
And Time’s commentary is here
The 1938 Dream House was built — the Bernard Schwartz House in Wisconsin, which is available for overnight rentals and open for tours on selected dates.
Mark Hertzberg has put up a short post about a recent visit to Taliesin — and included a batch of photos. He calls the photographs “outtakes”. If my outtakes were that good, I’d hang the non-outtakes in a gallery with a price tag so high that it would leave me open to charges of unjust […]
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has hired an architect for the newly created position of Vice President of Campus Planning, Restoration and Development. Robert A. Jones, AIA NCARB will oversee all maintenance, restoration and management of the buildings, land and infrastructure of the Foundation’s property in Scottsdale, Arizona and Spring Green, Wisconsin. Which, to me, […]
Another photo of Taliesin, taken in early July. This one is pretty straight, so it must have been taken by my wife.
A view from the terrace of Taliesin.
Entrance to the main building at Taliesin, July 2007.
I liked the Romeo and Juliet Windmill much more than I expected. I always thought: “Hey, it’s just a windmill”. But it is one of those buildings that sits quietly impressive on its site, looking exactly like it should look. Yeah, hard to explain, and possibly no one else would agree, but I like it.
This […]