Built over a waterfall for Dept Store owner Edgar Kaufman.
It was here that the state of Israel was conceptualized.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox10phoenix.com ...
Wow. Taliesen is closing! What a shame. They’ll turn it into some kind of a homage to Wright.
What does Howard Roark have to say?...................
No, Taliesin West isn’t closing...just the architecture school that is based there.
Howard Roake would have children by the woman he raped.
This is a tragedy, but Lindal Homes is carrying on the Wright tradition with their home designs. The Chief Designer is a Taliesen alumna.
Built over a waterfall for Dept Store owner Edgar Kaufman.
It was here that the state of Israel was conceptualized.
Howard Roark laughed.
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.
I agree it is a wonderful tour.
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.
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.
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.
If you take away the engineers and the artists, what you have left are architects. They’re about as productive as phone sanitizers.
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.
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.
We did a tour of Taliesin. It is indeed gorgeous.
But interacting with the people there was like dealing with cult members.
Class B Golgafrinchans?
The legend is that Wright was constantly at odds with the engineers as the construction commenced...............
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
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.