In my opinion the two aspects of a FLW home that I’ve always admired is the thought put into the orientation to the sun along with much larger than standard overhangs on his homes. Shielded from the Summer sun and then allowing the Lower Winter Sun to shine on through. The exterior of the homes protected from rain, snow, and sun has me wondering why all modern homes do not have longer overhangs around the entire home.

You clearly love the house. Hopefully you get to live there one day.

Excellent video. My only wish is that the video was filmed the other direction. I am picking nits but well done.

The design for construction method developed by FLW seems similar to curtain wall construction. Slab or foundation is built and the structural load bearing skeleton is built. Afterwards, the roof is built creating a covered workshop to continue construction. After that the windows, non load bearing walls, and doors are installed.

So glad Cranbrook are custodians of this house. I've toured the Affleck house and would do "drive-byes" of the Smith house. I need to look for tour dates.

Great tour of the house. 👍🏽

So spacious looking. Dealing with bank and builders is a definite issue because they will require compromises in the design of the house. On the other hand, there are design elements Wright's aren't practical enough (he was being true to his vision), like the flat roof, though it adds so much to the horizonal which, adds to the equanimity & the feeling that you can just relax into the moment. I wish, in a way, that he would come back to us and continue designing more homes. And I wish that he would have collaborated with women. That's where we can go into the future, learning from him and improving, rather than just idolizing and wanting to duplicate what he has achieved.

Kevin Adkisson's enthusiasm for the work of Mr Wright is infectious, and he brings to his audience a number of useful facts and ideas. I haven't previously heard of an owner's reporting, for instance, on how to use the radiant heat system most effectively, timing the boiler to operate in the pre-dawn hours and turning it off by the end of the afternoon. The term "gravity heat," Wright's iconoclastic choice, deserves explanation as an alternative to the more useful term "radiant" or hydronic floor heat. It is painful, it must be said, to witness the museum curator of design stumble through an inadequate and even incorrect description of the roof construction and wall structure of the Usonian house. Fiberglass in the roof cover ? "Wet tar" ? "Stitching" of the stacked 2x4s in the roof framing may be a term Wright once used, but it means little without a better description of how those pieces of lumber are actually deployed. Similarly, in what way the bookshelves contribute to the stiffness of the three-ply wall seems to escape adequate description. Construction vocabulary is an area that the speaker would do well to brush up on, in particular because of the unique nature of Wrights unorthodox structural strategies---which our guide quite correctly points to as an interesting if sometimes troubling aspect of the work.

Wish you had filmed this horizontally and not vertically and in HD.

what is the book you mention about Usonian homes?

😄😄😄 architects and their tastes…. A wet roof….. oh boy….. form should never come first, function should. Nevertheless, I am very fond of all the architectural works of Mr Wright.