Book Favorites #3

In my third book favorites post, I will be showing a part of the book where Wright creates Taliesin West, which is his winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona.  He was around 70 when he designed it.  The first Taliesin, Taliesin East, is in Wisconsin near Spring Creek.  This was Wright's summer home.  Here is a passage from the book about Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West.

"The new Taliesin was a long, low prism.  Angular vertical walls

 were spread out over nine hundred feet, backed by a low, connecting

horizontal wall.  Redwood beams covered by natural canvas panels

spanned these verticals.  The angles mirrored the angles of the mountain

ridges: low against a rear buttress wall, rising to a shallow peak, falling

more abruptly in a shed roof to the open side.  As it rose they began

to call it 'Taliesin West.'"

                                                            

                                                                - Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright by Jan Adkins

Here is a picture of the beautiful "Taliesin West."  (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

 References:

1. Take a look at my full "Book Favorites" series here!
2. Taliesin West