One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential designs will be donated to the School of Architecture at Taliesin. The nautilus-like 1952 David and Gladys Wright House was designed 85 years ago and the donation will allow school administrators, professors, students, and visiting scholars to live at the home and become artists in residence.
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Built in the Arcadia neighbourhood of Phoenix, Arizona, in 1952, this spiral-plan property‘s owner Zach Rawling was donated in the day that Wright’s 150th birthday.
“The gift of the David Wright House to benefit the school will expand the school’s footprint into the heart of Phoenix, and celebrate the legacy of the David Wright House as an instructive environment for the experience and learning of architecture,” reads a joint statement from Rawling and School of Architecture at Taliesin dean Aaron Betsky.
This incredible house was built from concrete blocks and its elevated curving form is accessed via a spiralling ramp that only ends up in the roof. The interior design of this amazing house is filled with mid-century furniture that features a dazzling colourful rug.
The structure remained a family home until 2008. In 2012, developers threatened to demolish, but fortunately, Rawling bought the property with plans to turn it into a museum.
Now, the house will be “formally gifted to a new supporting organisation of the Arizona Community Foundation for the benefit of the School of Architecture at Taliesin“. “The new organisation will own the house and manage the endowment for the benefit of the school, while the school will operate the property, educational curriculum and all community and cultural activities,” said Rawling and Betsky.
Known until recently as the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, this architecture school “offers an accredited Master of Architecture graduate programme based on Wright’s architectural principles.”
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