Wright Chat

Portmeirion is where The Prisoner was filmed (1960's Patrick McGoohan: Number Six).

https://portmeirion.wales/about/the-prisoner

Just discovered DailyWright.
Love it.
Great idea.

Wonder how those 2x4 form ribs were fabricated ?

Thanks for posting these.
I've never seen this house.
Kamphoefner and Matsumoto are still legendary in North Carolina.

I like the scale of the place.

Stumbled across this building years ago when it was empty.
This is the first I've heard of it since.
If I can get by there I'll post shots.
It's about a 2 hr drive.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_l ... 9994648276


Wondering if SREckland still has the offer open to take fresh shots.
I for one would love to see them.

Soviet Architectural Avante Gardes Bloomsbury Press. According to the description I read, this book was painstakingly researched with the thesis that modern architecture under Stalin was not as completely shut down as the usual narrative conveys. According to the reviewer: "... a fascinating final c...

OK - I'll take a closer look at Studio Ozenfant.

Regarding Ozenfant Studio:
RG - do you know the story behind the elimination of the saw-tooth skylights? Water failure of some kind?

If it has not been stated earlier:
Cliif May and the Prices must have been fans of Wurster's Gregory Farmhouse.

Great idea.
Never heard of Larsson. Charming place, I love it:
https://www.carllarsson.se/en/garden/

Cool. Here's the archive entry: https://breuer.syr.edu/project.php?id=264 Now: Seeing as how there are only two participating participants in the Cantilever Club so far and seeing as how there is no consensus between them about the first nomination, I'd say, therefore the nomination fails. It's ok. ...

Ha! I had not read any of that - thank you! Will do so now. Right off the bat, I'm inclined to disagree with Ford, but interested in what he has to say. No doubt Breuer's work lies with the "International Style," but something about the ingenuity of these cantilevers seems Wright like to me. It has ...

I'm interested what the Wright Chat consensus would be on inducting this house into the FLLW-CC? On the one hand, relative to Wright, it's too prosaic to be given the award. Yet, on the other hand, I think it's worthy of Wright in terms of its ingenuity and downright denial of conventional technical...