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Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - cbelt3 - 05-15-2018

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/want-to-live-in-a-frank-lloyd-wright-home-one/article_00fc30e6-8847-5816-874b-a95eaa504505.html

The listing
https://www.savewright.org/building/pappas-house/?region=us&for_sale=1

Strangely I never ever saw the house. Nestled back of the beyond in the old neighborhood.


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - NewtonMP2100 - 05-15-2018

....Pappa......can you hear me.....???


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - AllGold - 05-15-2018

The entire house is built of pre-cast, terra-cotta-tinted concrete blocks, formed on a 2-foot module.

Not that I'm a FLW expert, but I haven't seen that in other houses.

I love FLW, but I hate his no-garage insistence and if I actually had the money for a house like that, I would have to add a garage of some sort.

I have never actually been in a FLW-designed house, however, I have been in one designed by one of his disciples.


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - NewtonMP2100 - 05-16-2018

....since he is deceased now....does that mean there is no longer a.....Mr. Wright [ for the ladies out there ]....??


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-16-2018

Coincidentally, I toured the FLW Home and Studio and FLW-designed Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL, today. Touring the Robie House in South Side Chi-town tomorrow.


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - Bo - 05-17-2018

Twice a year when I pay my property taxes I get to wander through a FLW building. He designed our local civic center. Cool building to be inside. Rides that line between nostalgia and futurism. It was featured heavily in Gattaca

https://www.google.com/search?q=marin+civic+center&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS95r4uovbAhXkzVQKHQ19CBUQ_AUICygC&biw=1337&bih=1329

Also got to tour Taliesen West over the holidays. Another very cool facility. Was surprised to hear it is still an active architecture school.


Re: Feeling Usonian Automatic ? Frank Lloyd Wright house for sale in my old 'hood - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-17-2018

Bo wrote:
It was featured heavily in Gattaca.

So was this building, located on the campus of my alma mater, Cal Poly Pomons: