Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West

Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 92.

Taliesin West sits within a pristine Sonoran desert landscape at the foot of the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale. It lies secluded from nearby residential development within the foothills of a range of mountains to the north. Taliesin West remains one of the few estates in the Phoenix metropolitan area which has been able to preserve desert mountain and open space for the benefit of its undergraduate and graduate programs in Architecture, K-12 students, scholars and visitors.

Many of Wright's most famous buildings were designed in the drafting room at Taliesin West, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University in Tempe.

The weather was gorgeous for our visit to Taliesin West, sometimes the wind would come up and make trekking around the desert quite challenging. Most of the buildings were built by the students and their own living facilities were similar to living in a large tent built of canvas and a frame.

Another great and interesting discovery on our Cruise America Adventure