Taliesin West
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 | Taliesin West |
| Designer | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Location | Scottsdale, Arizona, USA |
| Date | 1937 onward |
| Building Type | architect's house and studio, large house |
| Climate | hot, dry |
| Context | rural |
| Architectural Style | Idiosyncratic Modern |
| Street Address | 12621 North Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd |
| Notes | S.241. continuing location of Taliesin Associated Architects. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Taliesin_West.html |
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Commentary
"A great and poetic building designed in subtle harmony with its magnificent setting of desert and mountains, and with deep intuitive feeling for the nature of the chosen materials and for the way man might best live under the hard, bright Arizona sun.
"Taliesin West is the winter home and workshop of Mr. Wright and his students, and was built almost entirely by the students themselves. Walls are concrete, but of a special kind: native boulders, red, yellow and gray, were laid in rough wooden forms and cement poured over. Above these colorful, variously tapered walls are the great redwood trusses which support canvas-covered roof flaps. Glass is unnecessary, as the canvas admits a softly diffused light."
—from Elizabeth Mock, ed. Built in the USA Since 1932. p84.
The Creator's Words
"Taliesin West is another one of those ventures in the general direction of the unknown in which this architect has so often indulged."
"There is probably more instruction concerning construction in the desert ways of plant life than in any books ever written."
—Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright", The Architectural Forum, January, 1948, Vol 88 Number 1. p87.
Details
Address:
Shea Boulevard
Scottsdale, Arizona
—Thomas A. Heinz. Architectural Monographs No. 18: Frank Lloyd Wright. p141.
American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1973
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The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright. America's Castles, 1996. VHS-NTSC format video tape. ISBN 0767000099.— Video - Available at Amazon.com
Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. site plan drawing, p93.— A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Donald Corner and Jenny Young, University of Oregon. Slide from photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.17, interior photo of office work space. PCD.2350.1012.1143.16, exterior view of stonework and wood external roof beams.
Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1920-1945. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. exterior and studio photos, plan drawing, p436-437.— Available at Amazon.com
Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-01328-0. LC 92-18415. NA2750.H48. exterior photo from courtyard, p15.
Elizabeth Mock, ed. Built in the USA Since 1932. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1945. LC 68-57299. NA712.N45 1968. discussion p84.
William S. Saunders. Modern Architecture—Photographs by Ezra Stoller. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3816-2. exterior photo, p25, 26, 28. interior photo, p27. canvas roof shown, p74.— A wonderful & inspiring book of beautiful photographs by the master of architectural photography. Available at Amazon.com
Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photos and small interior photo, p144. — Available at Amazon.com
William Allin Storrer. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-77624-7. LC 93-30127. NA737.W7A4 1993. plan drawing. © William Allin Storrer. — Perhaps the definitve catalog of all of Wright's built projects. Available at Amazon.com
Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, Volume 1. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. exterior photo, f297, p371.— An excellent survey of American architecture. Reprint Edition available at Amazon.com
