On Wednesday, we visted Taliesin West in Scottsdale, which is Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture school's winter campus. This is an acredited college that still has some instructors who studied directly under Wright himself. We went on the 3 hour tour which included a stop for high tea in the campus dining room.

Karen in front of the visitor's center

our tour guide

introduction talk

"organic" desert architechture, a term coined by Frank Lloyd Wright

local spring well provides plenty of water for the campus, including for this landscape pool

classroom building

Ginger in front of an outdoor sculpture

Karen and Ginger at high tea

other tour guests at high tea in the campus dining room

dragon gas lamp

Wright's private residence recently opened for the long tour, they let us sit on the furniture because they are reproductions

Oriental art motif in the Wright private quarters

Frank Lloyd Wright portrait in the private quarters

outdoor desert landscaping

fountain

one of many outdoor sculptures

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