As an educational organization, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation serves as a forum for multi-disciplinary discourse about improving the built and natural environments to enhance the quality and humanity of daily life.
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture celebrated its 75th anniversary in November of 2007 and over 40,000 students have participated in the Foundation’s K-12 summer camp program since its inception.
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (www.taliesin.edu) offers academically and professionally accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees (BAS and M.Arch). Students and faculty collaborate on projects both on campus (such as the new Mod.Fab project) and on real projects nationally. These have included The New American Village (sustainable communities post-Katrina), planning and design “charettes” for a New Mexico Artists Community, rural housing in Uganda, and evaluations of the economic and social consequences of sprawl development in the Phoenix metropolitan region. The unique historic buildings on both campuses used by the School of Architecture enable students and faculty to be directly involved in historic preservation initiatives, landscape design and the stewardship of the unique and pristine natural habitats at both Taliesin and Taliesin West.
Students visiting the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives
Midway furniture installation by graduate student Russell Mahoney
Students experimenting with tensile membranes in the Advanced Design Studio
Graduate student Maya Ward-Karet working on a desert shelter model for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum 2009
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