Photo tour of Taliesin West,
the Arizona home and workshop of
Frank Lloyd Wright and his students
Photo © Betsy Malloy
The Monolith
Taliesin West
Scottsdale, Arizona
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Out here in the great spaces obvious symmetry claims too much, I find, wearies the eye too soon and stultifies the imagination. Obvious symmetry usually closes the episode before it begins. So for me I felt there could be no obvious symmetry in any building in this great desert ... A desert building should be nobley simple in outline as the region itself is sculptured, should have learned from the cactus many secrets of straight line pattern for its forms, playing with the light and softening the building into its proper place among the organic desert creations - the man-made building heightening the beauty of the desert and the desert more beautiful because of the building." - Frank Lloyd Wright
At the entrance to Taliesin West, a towering stone and concrete monolith leads to a gravel courtyard.
Learn More About Taliesin West
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Experiment in Desert Living
- Visiting Taliesin West
- Taliesin School of Architecture (official site)
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