Taliesin West is the winter counterpart Frank Lloyd Wright began building in 1937 on 491 acres of Sonoran desert in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains near Scottsdale, Arizona, sharing its Welsh name and shining-brow siting principle with the original Wisconsin Taliesin. Wright and his Fellowship apprentices built it themselves each winter from local desert rubblestone and redwood, and Wright kept refining it as his own home, studio and architecture school every season until his death in 1959; the site also preserves 64 documented petroglyphs left by the Hohokam people who lived there centuries earlier. It remains the headquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
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Location12621 North Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States 1 Architectural StyleOrganic architecture in a desert idiom, structures laid out on a 45-degree grid answering the angles of the surrounding McDowell Mountains. 1 Structural SystemLow masonry walls of desert rubblestone set in concrete, originally roofed in redwood-framed canvas panels resembling tents, later replaced with acrylic panels. 1 Primary MaterialDesert masonry (local rock set in concrete), redwood framing, canvas and later acrylic roofing panels. 1 Building TypeHouse and studio (Wright's own winter residence and architectural school) 1 Commissioned ByFrank Lloyd Wright himself, as his winter home, studio and desert laboratory for the Taliesin Fellowship 1 Construction UNESCO Inscription YearOne of eight Wright buildings inscribed together as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright; also a US National Historic Landmark since 1982. Current UseHeadquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, operated as a museum and educational center with tours and events 1 Visitor AccessOpen for guided tours and events 1 Connections
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Taliesin West is the winter counterpart Frank Lloyd Wright began building in 1937 on 491 acres of Sonoran desert in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains near Scottsdale, Arizona, sharing its Welsh name and shining-brow siting principle with the original Wisconsin Taliesin.
View the Source 2. UNESCO World Heritage Centre
UNESCOThe 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, inscribed 2019View the Source Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningIn Form: Architecture, chapters on architectural history across periods
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