4/10/2025 - Taliesin West a Frank Lloyd Wright Home

This is the Taliesin West House.  The design came from Frank Lloyd Wright the architect.  This was Frank's winter home located in Scottsdale, AZ.  In the late 1930's, he purchased six hundred acres of land in the Sonoran Desert at the foot McDowell Mountain.  This home was his winter home, studio and architectural laboratory until his death in 1959.

The house was constructed of stone, cement, redwood, and canvas.  There are angled roofs, exposed beams and rubble walls mirror the colors, textures and forms of the surrounding landscape.  Later on somethings got replaced with steel and fiberglass.

Now you can visit it to see the amazing house.  You can take a tour or do a self-guided tour.  We took the self-guided tour.  When you are there, you download the app on your phone, and you listen to it through your headphones that they provide or bring your own.  Bring your own headphones is the best.  There is number along the pathways of the house.  You click on your phone for that number, and they talk about.

Here is a list of the numbers along the pathway.

#1 - Introduction, Whitman Square - This is in front of the house.

#2 - Entry Court - This area is like a driveway.

#3 - Petroglyph - This is a rock where they saw a petroglyph that Frank Lloyd Wright got his signature.

#4 - Wright's Office - This is where he showed some of his designs to people.

#5 - Cabaret Fountain - This is a fountain in the middle of the house.

#6 - Prow Pool - Picture of the pool and see how everything is in a triangle.  It shows you how the mountain connects with the house.

#7 - The Prow - A view of the desert.

#8 - Sunset Terrace - These displays were around the house.

#9 - Garden Room - Frank Lloyd Wright's entertainment room

This is in the garden room.  It is a picture wall of the house from a bird eye view.

#10 - Dining Cove - A small room off the garden room.

#11 - Tower Pool - Small pool

#12 - Kiva - Meeting room

#13 - Breezeway - Have the nice cool breeze to go through the house.

#14 - Dining Room - Where they eat.  It was big area.

#15 - Drafting Studio - Here are some of the draft boards they used and they had some drawings of his designs.

#16 - Cabaret - Where they played shows.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of the place.  But you have to go for yourself.  Perfect time to go when it is cooler weather.  Take a hat and sunglasses and water.  They have a great little gift shop.  Also, it is UNESCO World Heritage site and National Historic Landmark in Arizona. 

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation