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Photo by Carol M. Highsmith
In 1937 Wright bought 600 acres in the Sonoran Desert at the foot of McDowell Mountain. He built there first a camp and then gradually an entire complex of offices, drafting rooms, and living quarters. All the while, Taliesin West served as a laboratory for Wright’s ideas and was constructed almost entirely by the architecture students who studied there. The walls are of concrete poured around large desert stones.
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This site is a living laboratory. stand at the site where the photo was taken and look to the north and east. The building comes out of the very desert, stone, rocks, cactus. It is impossible to imagine anyplace but where it is. An architecture that fits the place.
Then turn and look west and south. A people who have lost the place. What could have been at one side, and what will likely be on the other.
Posted by John | March 27, 2007 5:15 PM
Posted on March 27, 2007 17:15