By the time I first visited Taliesin in Spring Green, I had all but discounted Frank Lloyd Wright as a cliche, the cliche, of American architecture. By the time I left from that visit, I was humbled by the architecture and reminded why Wright, after all these years,...
I am a professor emeritus who taught architectural history at the University of Utah to future architects for 39 years. My interest in Frank Lloyd Wright began while in junior high school in the fifties when my father, who worked in downtown Manhattan, would bring...
Between 1934-37 architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his Taliesin apprentices wrote columns printed in Wisconsin newspapers. Wisconsin River Valley Journal continued the tradition during my time at Taliesin. To read the columns of 1934-37, see “At Taliesin,”...
All three Taliesins were fantastic. I luckily was allowed to go thru the “public” rooms of the final house, the Living Room, etc., with the added bonus of being guided by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. My friend’s ‘crazy’ Uncle Harry was with us,...
Having the opportunity to stay at Taliesin overnight was one of my great life experiences. It’s easy to see why Wright was continually drawn back to the spectacular landscape of the area. Experiencing that landscape in early morning fog, the golden light of late...
I saw Taliesin first in 1962 with my father on my way to college. I had written a fictional account of going there that appeared in the high school literary magazine after reading Wright’s Autobiography. My interest in Wright was stimulated by my architect-father’s...
Visiting Taliesin, I was most inspired by how Frank Lloyd Wright lived within the exploration of his profession. Signs of additions and removal of elements reflect the structure’s continual evolution. It certainly feels organic in the way it evolved. It grew and...
Taliesin transports you to another place. It has a mysterious quality in the way it is built into the landscape, but it is stories of what kind of life was lived in such a place that fascinated me. Built for a woman who was not Wright’s wife, suffering through crazed...
By the time I first visited Taliesin in Spring Green, I had all but discounted Frank Lloyd Wright as a cliche, the cliche, of American architecture. By the time I left from that visit, I was humbled by the architecture and reminded why Wright, after all these years,...
Protruding rock ledges, verdant hillsides, reflecting water, stoic trees. These are the simple materials that surround Taliesin and comprise it either metaphorically or in literal fact of construction. Taliesin embodies the delights and pleasures of the nature around...
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