Tag Archives: apprentices

[Related] Snowflake Motel

November 27, 2007 – 12:00 pm

Lee Bay has a post on his blog The Urban Observer on Wes Peter’s (an early Taliesin apprentice, and both Frank Lloyd Wright’s and Stalin’s son-in-law) Snowflake Motel with links to a few more photos and an article.

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[News] Anniversary Symposium Recap

November 10, 2007 – 8:20 am

Kate Nolan, of The Arizona Republic, wrote an article on last night’s opening symposium for the 75th anniversary celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s apprenticeship program.

An audience member asked whether the Wright school wasn’t isolating itself by staying “up here on the hill? Is there any cross-pollination of ideas the way there is at a […]

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A Diamond Jubilee

November 2, 2007 – 8:53 pm

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Taliesin Apprenticeship — of course it’s time for a party. A celebration will be held November 8- 12 at Taliesin West. Among the notable attendees will be: Eric Lloyd Wright, Paoli Soleri (Taliesin alumnus), Pedro Guerrero, Earl Nisbet, and John Rattenbury. Events include a […]

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A visit to Arcosanti

September 15, 2007 – 7:38 am

I grew up in the 1970s, so I’ve always had an odd interest in Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s utopian community in the Arizona desert — Soleri was once a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. (I’ve always thought that Peter Beagle’s famous quote, “the Sixties were no fouler a decade than the Fifties — they merely reaped […]

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