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Scottsdale · Arizona · 1937

Frank Lloyd Wright's desert camp

His apprentices built it by hand from desert rock and sand.

Frank Lloyd Wright — Scottsdale · Arizona
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Frank Lloyd Wright began Taliesin West in 1937 as a winter home and school, with his apprentices hauling desert stones and pouring them into wooden forms to make 'desert masonry.'

The canvas roofs let the light through; Wright kept altering the buildings almost every winter until his death in 1959.

It is still home to the school that grew out of his fellowship and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing of Wright's work.

Timeline

  1. 1937
    Wright buys desert land and starts building.
  2. 1959
    Wright dies; the fellowship continues.
  3. 2019
    Named part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing.

Some homes are finished. This one was a classroom that never stopped changing.

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