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Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture maintains and operates two campuses: Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Each is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and both are National Landmark Properties.
Visits to the school are possible through the Tour Programs at both campuses. If applicants wish to talk to a School representative during any of the informal visits they must schedule in advance through the Director of Admission, at nikita@taliesin.edu.
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The construction of Taliesin West, begun by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937,
was designed by Wright and built over many years by apprentices who were
a part of the resident Taliesin Fellowship. Taliesin West is the main
campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The buildings
rest on 600 acres of preserved Sonoran Desert open space on the South foothills of
the McDowell mountains with spectacular views of Scottsdale, Phoenix and
the Valley of the Sun.
The buildings at Taliesin West include drafting studios, which provide
well-equipped workspaces for students and faculty; classrooms, study rooms,
the William Wesley Peters Library, and exhibition spaces. Two theaters
provide space for theatrical performances, concerts, music and dance rehearsals,
as well as space for videos, films, visiting lecturers, special events
and formal dining. Workspace and equipment are available for woodwork,
metal work, painting, printing, photography, sculpture, pottery, and model
making.
All students and many faculty live on campus. Much of the living space
opens directly to the desert. Taliesin West is a complex of buildings
and garden courts linked together by walks and terraces. The seamless releationship between the structures and the natural desert encourages students to make full use of the 600 acres surrounding the central campus core to study the complex desert ecology, to deeply understand the poetic power of the landscape, and to discover
the lessons available to the architect from the observation of nature. Students at Taliesin
West live primarily in experimental desert shelters for at least their
first year of residency. A limited number of rooms are available for upper-level
students. Women have the option of a room or desert shelter from the beginning
of their residency.
Locker room facilities, a lounge, and a study/reading room are available
for the desert dwellers.
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Most of the students and many of the faculty and staff move to Taliesin
in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the original site of the Taliesin Fellowship,
for the summer months. The buildings at Taliesin include an ample drafting
and design studio; classrooms; meeting spaces; a theater (seating 120)
which is used for films, musical performances, dance presentations, lectures;
a carpentry shop; a painting and sculpture studio.
At Taliesin all students are assigned to rooms in the various building
complexes on campus. The rooms are located at Hillside, Taliesin, Tan-y-deri
and Midway. The room assignments are reviewed each season and changes
may occur.
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The William Wesley Peters Library at Taliesin West is the official depository
for books, periodicals and other media supporting the Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture and Taliesin Architects. The library serves the
research interests of the Taliesin Community and a wider community of
architectural and design scholars interested in the special collections
of the library. More Library information.
The core of the cataloged monograph portion of the William Wesley Peters
Library collection constitutes materials from the personal library of
Frank Lloyd Wright's first apprentice, the late William Wesley Peters.
Included in this collection are contributions chronicling the history
of the Taliesin Fellowship from its inception in 1932. The collection
encompasses commentaries, critiques, and photographs providing historical
insight into the life and contribution of Frank Lloyd Wright's apprentices
to the world of architecture and design.
The library contains over 15,000 cataloged volumes including state and
federal documents as well as selected uncataloged maps, sound recordings,
videos, and the architectural archives of the firm, Taliesin Architects,
comprised of cataloged books and pamphlets, slides, photographs, drawings,
collateral materials, correspondence, and other documents. One hundred
periodical titles are neither bound nor cataloged but filed alphabetically
by title.
Access to all library book, periodical, slide, photograph, document, ephemera
and drawing collections is through SNAP!® for Windows®, a state-of-the-art
database. The collections are accessible from networked work stations
at Taliesin West. Download
an Excel spreadsheet of main Library Catalog.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, headquartered at Taliesin West, was founded
to preserve and perpetuate the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and to educate
the public concerning his important and unique contribution to architecture.
The Archives' collection of Frank Lloyd Wright materials includes more
than 20,000 original drawings, 190,000 documents of correspondence covering
1887-1959, approximately 600 original manuscripts, a large Oriental art
collection, historic photographs of buildings and family, and related
materials from books to articles. The Archives also preserves works of
Mrs. Wright and of the Taliesin Fellowship. These collections offer a
vast reservoir of material for Students at Taliesin and outside researchers.
More information about the Archives may be found at the site of The
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
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Over the decades, the name Taliesin came to bear a variety of meanings:
it is the place, the buildings in Wisconsin and Arizona, the Fellowship,
the architectural practice and the educational ideas. Though today the
organization and its entities bear formal names, we still refer to the
entirety of the endeavors as Taliesin; the living idea for the exploration,
practice and preservation of architecture in the context of nature, people,
culture and environment.
"Taliesin was the name of a Welsh poet, a druid-bard who sang to Wales the glories of fine art. Many legends cling to that beloved reverend name in Wales.
Richard Hovey's charming masque, 'Taliesin,' had just made me acquainted with his image of the historic bard. Since all my relatives had Welsh names for their places, why not Taliesin for mine? . . . Literally the Welsh word means 'shining brow.'
This hill on which Taliesin now stands as 'brow' was one of my favorite places when as a boy looking for pasque flowers I went in March sun while snow still streaked the hillsides. When you are on the low hill-crown you are out in mid-air as though swinging in a plane, the Valley and two others dropping away from you leaving the tree-tops standing below all about you."Frank Lloyd Wright
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