Under Arizona Skies: The Apprentice Desert Shelters at Frank Lloy

Under Arizona Skies: The Apprentice Desert Shelters at Frank Lloy by Pfeiffer Brooks & Sidy


ISBN
9780764959592
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
72
Dimensions
188 x 185 x 15mm

Nestled among the cactus thickets and dry washes of the Arizona desert lies an intriguing landscape of architectural experiments. Sometimes encompassing a paloverde tree or suspended many feet above the desert floor, these small dwellings, conceived by architecture students as alternatives to tents and dormitory rooms, embrace - and in their own way, celebrate - the natural, rugged terrain surrounding Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West. The earliest shelters were created by adventurous apprentices at the Taliesin Fellowship, a school for architects established by Frank Lloyd Wright in the mid-1930s. After Wright's death, a more conventional school - the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - was established, and the practice of designing and building a ersonal dwelling became a unique feature of the school's curriculum. Wright insisted that there would be no armchair architects at his school; apprentices would learn through hard work and firsthand experience. In addition to honing their design and drafting skills, students comb the desert for dwelling sites; consider the effects of extreme temperature change and winter rain; gather construction materials from surrounding hills and dry riverbeds; and thoroughly explore what Wright termed organic architecture. Collected in Under Arizona Skies are photographs and architectural plans of the most exemplary student shelters built at Taliesin West, as well as personal accounts written by Victor E. Sidy, Dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director of Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
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