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pj67coll · #31 08-23-2010, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

...you have a lot of experience with Architect designed homes?

(I have reservations about the house pictured in this thread by the OP)

It is a clear dramatic statement but would have been very expensive to build and very very expensive to maintain and heat and cool. (think of the glass cleaning bill).

No. Only two, directly. My brother is an architect so I give him a hard time about this sort of stuf all the time.

Actually. I'm not kidding when I say I like the look of the design. In fact I kind of like that look very much. A lot more than the awful stucco monstrosities that have broken out all over this part of the country in the last couple of decades like a bad rash.

FLW and Phillip Johnson, great stuff. Eichler. Equally (friend of mine just bought one in LA for a half mill). However I find that sometimes the necessity to be "artistically creative" can get in the way of practical livability. When I visited Taliesin West here a few years back I was struck by the fact that you practically had to hunch over to get thru the doorways because Wrights philosophy was that you had to enter a room bowed down or some such nonsense so that you "rose up into it" and it opened up to you as a larger space. Bizarre.

- Peter.

t walgamuth · #32 08-23-2010, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by pj67coll

No. Only two, directly. My brother is an architect so I give him a hard time about this sort of stuf all the time.

Actually. I'm not kidding when I say I like the look of the design. In fact I kind of like that look very much. A lot more than the awful stucco monstrosities that have broken out all over this part of the country in the last couple of decades like a bad rash.

FLW and Phillip Johnson, great stuff. Eichler. Equally (friend of mine just bought one in LA for a half mill). However I find that sometimes the necessity to be "artistically creative" can get in the way of practical livability. When I visited Taliesin West here a few years back I was struck by the fact that you practically had to hunch over to get thru the doorways because Wrights philosophy was that you had to enter a room bowed down or some such nonsense so that you "rose up into it" and it opened up to you as a larger space. Bizarre.

- Peter.

I just reacted to the broad brush statement saying Architects typically sacrifice function over form (or words to that effect).

i visited taliesan west too and did not find any doors needing to hunch over to enter. You have misquoted him. He liked to play low ceiling spaces (maybe 7' - 4 or so against tall spaces (12' and up) so that you visually were lifted as you entered the main space. You don't actually have to bend over to achieve this effect.

though Wright was a great designer, he was somewhat casual about detailing his innovative designs. In todays world you would have trouble fiinding any Architects so casual about detailing in our litigation prone environment.

Kuan · #33 08-23-2010, 10:58 AM

I wonder too about the birds who will constantly fly into a glass house.

PaulC · #34 08-23-2010, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

I wonder too about the birds who will constantly fly into a glass house.

Just adorn each window with a plastic owl. Problem solved, although Philip Johnson might turn in his grave a few times.

Hatterasguy · #35 08-23-2010, 12:12 PM

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Seriously you couldn't have kids in a house like that they would break every window in the place.

SwampYankee · #36 08-23-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Seriously you couldn't have kids in a house like that they would break every window in the place.

I don't know about breaking them but there would sure be a lot of smears and face prints all over them! I can see a couple of them running full speed into them as well.

aklim · #37 08-23-2010, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by The Clk Man

If I owned that house, I would be walking around naked all the time.

Your neighbors would probably petition to have it spray painted.

pj67coll · #38 08-23-2010, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

i visited taliesan west too and did not find any doors needing to hunch over to enter. You have misquoted him. He liked to play low ceiling spaces (maybe 7' - 4 or so against tall spaces (12' and up) so that you visually were lifted as you entered the main space. You don't actually have to bend over to achieve this effect.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Though I remember having to stoop down to enter some rooms. Maybe my memory is flawed. I haven't been there since 1993.

- Peter.

The Clk Man · #39 08-23-2010, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Your neighbors would probably petition to have it spray painted.

Why would they want to spray paint my "Thunder Dong"?

aklim · #40 08-23-2010, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Clk Man

Why would they want to spray paint my "Thunder Dong"?

Your house. Not your wiener.

t walgamuth · #41 08-23-2010, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by pj67coll

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Though I remember having to stoop down to enter some rooms. Maybe my memory is flawed. I haven't been there since 1993.

- Peter.

If you are 6- 8 or taller....

Drezell · #42 08-23-2010, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Seriously you couldn't have kids in a house like that they would break every window in the place.

Now that wouldn't be good....wouldn't the roof fall down too?