Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West

Frank Lloyd Wright’s

Taliesin West

by Kevin Earl

“The desert with its rim of arid mountains spotted like the leopard’s skin or tattooed with amazing patterns of creation, is a grand garden the like of which in sheer beauty of reach, space, and pattern does not exist, I think, in the world.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“Superlatives are exhausting and usually a bore - but we lived, moved, and had our being in superlatives for years.

And we were never bored.� - Frank Lloyd Wright

“... and you are pushed out into the most single exciting room that we have in this country. It is indescribable except that you can say that the light, since it all comes from the tent above, has infiltered and mellowed. You are just beginning to absorb this room when he opens a few of the tent flaps and this is when it really hits you ...

My friends, that is the essence of architecture.�

- Philip Johnson

“Our camp was freshly inspired by the Arizona desert itself. How simply true and beautiful these infinite patterns were!�

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“We had fun building our camp and more than fun living in it. We have found culture by way of it. Meantime man, boy and girl - we’ve learned a helluva lot by practice.

We knew about most of it before we ever got to the desert but we had never realized it until we did go out and go to work there.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“Our Arizona camp is something one can’t describe, just doesn’t care to talk about. Something sacred in respect to excellence...”

- Frank Lloyd wright

“Nevertheless our desert camp grew from year to year until now some ten years later - practically the whole world has come to look upon it and has marveled, even when it couldn’t understand.”

- Frank Lloyd wright