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Architecture school started by Frank Lloyd Wright to close
Fox10Phoenix ^ | January 28, 2020 | Not Attributed

Posted on 01/28/2020 1:17:09 PM PST by Towed_Jumper

The architecture school that architect Frank Lloyd Wright started nearly 90 years ago is closing, officials announced Tuesday.

The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which encompasses Wright properties in Wisconsin and Arizona, will shutter in June. The school’s governing board said in a statement the “gut-wrenching decision” was made after no agreement could be made with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep operating the school. Specific details about the negotiations between the school and foundation were not disclosed.

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KEYWORDS: franklloydwright; taliesin
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With a student body of only 30 students I assume the decision to close the school is based on economics. Regardless, if you've never been to Taliesin West you owe it to yourself to make a trip. The place is beautiful.
1 posted on 01/28/2020 1:17:09 PM PST by Towed_Jumper
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To: Towed_Jumper

Wow. Taliesen is closing! What a shame. They’ll turn it into some kind of a homage to Wright.


2 posted on 01/28/2020 1:21:15 PM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

What does Howard Roark have to say?...................


3 posted on 01/28/2020 1:21:34 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: FrdmLvr

No, Taliesin West isn’t closing...just the architecture school that is based there.


4 posted on 01/28/2020 1:23:02 PM PST by Towed_Jumper (Beware of a man who says believe in God as I do, otherwise God will punish you.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

Howard Roake would have children by the woman he raped.


5 posted on 01/28/2020 1:24:37 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

This is a tragedy, but Lindal Homes is carrying on the Wright tradition with their home designs. The Chief Designer is a Taliesen alumna.


6 posted on 01/28/2020 1:24:55 PM PST by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: All
FALLINGWATER, MILL RUN, PA.

Built over a waterfall for Dept Store owner Edgar Kaufman.
It was here that the state of Israel was conceptualized.


7 posted on 01/28/2020 1:26:53 PM PST by Liz (used of money Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Red Badger

Howard Roark laughed.


8 posted on 01/28/2020 1:27:55 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Liz

The foundation that manages Fallingwater spends a small fortune each year trying to prevent the house from being undermined by the creek.

Wright’s designs were beautiful, but not always practical.


9 posted on 01/28/2020 1:45:57 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Towed_Jumper

I agree it is a wonderful tour.


10 posted on 01/28/2020 1:52:22 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Wright’s designs were beautiful, but not always practical.

Florida Southern College has been renovating and renovating their Wright and student-of-Wright structures for as long as I have been living nearby, which is over three decades.

Just be glad he let Peter Keating design Cortlandt.

11 posted on 01/28/2020 1:56:12 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Towed_Jumper

I am very sorry to hear this. I had a 20+ year working relationship with several of the architects at Taliesin West, and I taught CAD and 3D computer graphics at FLWSA from 2004 to 2006, when students numbered only 7.

We helped bring the school back from oblivion, tried to keep it going, but most every one of the old guard, former apprentices and associates of Frank Lloyd Wright, have all passed away.

I attended one funeral after another at Taliesin West, now there are only a few folks left there that I know. All things must pass, but I am still so sorry to hear that this school will be gone.


12 posted on 01/28/2020 2:06:31 PM PST by Richard Axtell (I am at a loss, how much lower will they go before all hell breaks loose?)
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Look at the web site if you are interested. You will see a little of what is there, it is a place that I have spent a lot of time at, and know at least a bit of.

https://taliesin.edu/


13 posted on 01/28/2020 2:13:41 PM PST by Richard Axtell (I am at a loss, how much lower will they go before all hell breaks loose?)
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To: Towed_Jumper

If you take away the engineers and the artists, what you have left are architects. They’re about as productive as phone sanitizers.


14 posted on 01/28/2020 2:14:24 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: chajin

Wright’s Eusonian houses in the Midwest are nearly impossible to sell because he designed them without closets. He believed that future Americans would eschew material possessions. (DOH!)

The roof of the Johnson Wax building has never not leaked.


15 posted on 01/28/2020 2:18:17 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Richard Axtell

Fay Jones was my favorite of that clan. Took a Mexican architect friend on a detour after a meeting in Bentonville. Walking through the woods to sit alone in Thorn Crowne on a misty morning left him awestruck.


16 posted on 01/28/2020 2:21:46 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Towed_Jumper

We did a tour of Taliesin. It is indeed gorgeous.
But interacting with the people there was like dealing with cult members.


17 posted on 01/28/2020 2:29:49 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Born to Conserve
phone sanitizers and architects

Class B Golgafrinchans?

18 posted on 01/28/2020 2:39:26 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The legend is that Wright was constantly at odds with the engineers as the construction commenced...............


19 posted on 01/28/2020 2:43:45 PM PST by Liz (used of money Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: KC Burke

My husband grew up in Eureka Springs, AR. Whenever we visit we always go to Thorncrown Chapel. Lovely in any season.

https://thorncrown.com/photogallery.html


20 posted on 01/28/2020 2:57:38 PM PST by Atlantan
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