Comments on: Frank Lloyd Wright's spirit lives on at Taliesin West

Famed architect's western headquarters house an architecture school and carry on his legacy of great design.
Photos: Where Frank Lloyd Wright comes alive

[BigBopperII]

Indeed !

I've had the privilege of touring TW twice; the second time (because no one else was available) guided by a staff architect who had worked with Mr. Wright (as he insisted on calling him) personally. Wonderful indeed.

I live in Minnesota, so aside from a few houses, the closest (big) building is in Madison Wisconsin - The Monona Terrace. I had to beg the rest of the family to stop, but once inside they were amazed that a building could feel so comfortable. We all loved it!

[casaelmilagro]

Not the closest

Actually, the closest FLLW building to you, from Minnesota, would have been TALIESIN. FLLW build Taliesin in 1911, and lived in and worked on it for the rest of his life. It is located 35 miles WEST of Madison, in Spring Green WI. While Monona Terrace is great and all, if you want to see what FLLW was really about, you need to visit his home, Taliesin, the only place on earth where he could--and did--do whatever he wanted architecturally.

[Razzl]

Taliesin school's death grip on Wright's genius

Those of us inspired by Wright's work find, alas, that instead of
producing a continuous line of bright and inspired young
architects injecting Wright's genius into the cold Modernist
world the school of architecture at Taliesin has instead produced
just a half-dozen aging, cranky, secretive architects who resent
any attempt by the larger world to copy or emulate Wright's
work. Understanding Wright's thinking on a practical level is
best achieved by reading Sarah Susankah's various books, where
the thought process behind the use of space is broken down in
simple terms. And don't even think of building a copy of one of
Wright's houses for yourself, because the high priests of Taliesin
hold the rights to all the designs and only dole them out to the
wealthy and the worshippers...

[ceejay2005]

Yep you have to pay to enter the park but they have free trams that take you around the park to different lookouts and all of these are free after you enter the park. So you do not have to buy a tour package if you just want to look at the canyon and take some pictures. Unless you are planning on spending a lot of time there I would suggest just taking your own personal tour of the canyon. http://explorearizonatours.com/grandcanyon.php