Friday, December 5, Taliesin West Closes at 2:00 p.m.
News and updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation relaunched its website this year, and as it marks the 150th anniversary of Wright’s birth, the site’s designers find the master’s timeless principles are as relevant as ever. Jeff Ficker describes this experience in the Winter 2017 issue of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly.
Jeff Ficker | Feb 14, 2017
On Wednesday, October 1, 1952, Frank Lloyd Wright gathered his apprentices for a talk. On this day, like many in the great architect’s life, he was feeling particularly inspired by Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and decided to share his enthusiasm with the apprentices.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 13, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright admitted to only three influences: the Froebel Kindergarten Gifts he had played with as a child; Louis Henri Sullivan, his early mentor; and the Japanese woodblock print. Of particular significance to his developing aesthetic was the woodblock print and the culture that produced it.
Margo Stipe | Jan 1, 2017
American Transcendentalism helped define organic architecture.
Naomi Tanabe Uechi | Jan 1, 2017
Taliesin West is a National Historic Landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site nestled in the desert foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale, AZ.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Jan 1, 2017
Taliesin was the longest ongoing architectural work of Wright’s career. He never stopped changing it or adding to it. Although twice lost to fire, the residence each time rose again to embrace the brow of the hill with an ineffable aura of magic.
The goal of the Fellowship was “to develop a well correlated, creative human being with a wide horizon but capable of effective concentration of his faculties upon the circumstance in which he lives.”
Nearly 80 years after designing and building Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s desert masterpiece faces constant and unique preservation challenges.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Oct 31, 2016
The collection of 10 buildings in seven states represents the first modern architecture nomination from the United States to the World Heritage List.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Jan 26, 2015
