12-06-2025 11:00 via openculture.com

An Architectural Tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Desert Home and Studio

By some estimations, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home-studio complex took shape in 1941. But even then, the Arizona Republic presciently noted that “it may be years before it is considered finished.” The Taliesin West you can see in the new Architectural Digest video above is unlikely to change dramatically over the next few generations, but it’s also quite different from what Wright and his apprentices initially designed and built over their first six years of lif
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