Thursday, April 30, Taliesin West closes at 2:00 p.m.
News and updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
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.”
