I.N. Hagan House

Totally wow.

This is amazing. We have our own architectural correspondent and photographer. Did you Facebook the series?

I’ve been there… my dad the FLW fan took us to Fallingwater and this place.

@FlyingChainSaw: I don’t often facebook my posts, and I should. Next trip will be to see the Darwin Martin house. Shuffling off to Buffalo. And if you think this is something, wait until I post on a few more sites I’ve visited.

These pictures are awesome!

I love the way Wright also designed the furniture for many of his homes, and he was interested in creating affordable housing. Taliesin Architects have built some of these homes in Atlantic City. Good stuff.

I’ve got a thing for Louis Kahn. Have you seen My Architect? Kevin Bacon’s dad really fucked over Kahn and Philly. If Kahn had had his way, no one would drive downtown.

Kahn died alone in a public bathroom in Penn Station, and his body wasn’t identified for three days. He also had several families scattered about — they kind of knew about each other, and they kind of didn’t.

In the documentary, Kahn’s son tries to get to know his father by visiting his buildings and by interviewing his father’s cohorts. He talks with his siblings from the other families, and his mother is still convinced that Kahn was going to leave his wife for her. The movie is interesting on so many levels, but the son is kind of boring.

The Dhaka Assembly is my favorite, although he’s probably best known for Salk.

@blogenfreude: Woah. Can you mount them on Flickr or SmugMug, someplace where you can display large format files?

When you look at masterpiece work like this, and picture yourself living in it, you feel elevated and kind of thrilled, just at the thought. Can you imagine what a high it must be to wake up and walk through your FLW house to the kitchen, and then look out those incredible windows on to that incredible land swirling and rising around you?

Honestly, words fail. If you’re a lighting person–and I am–the beauty of Wright’s work (well, one of the many beauties) is that he availed himself of the natural light that floods a site like that. I cannot stand dark, claustrophobia-inducing spaces, and I have a feeling Wright couldn’t, either. He was an American genius who knew his topography and his lighting better than anyone I can think of.

@litbrit: If I had serious money, I would have some builder, a builder who understood the ethic of a man laying one stone on top of another, do this house for me. Or Jabobs 1 even – the first Usonian. Hagan, of course, is a bourgeois Usonian.

@litbrit: The only Wright buildings I’ve been in are at Talesin West and they are rather claustrophobic. The doorways were made for people under 5’7″.

This home appears to be a lot nicer than TW.

@TJ/ Jamie Sommers /TJ: Wright was about 5′ 5″, although his passport had him 2 inches taller because damned if he’d be shorter than his wife.