Photos (c) Mark Hertzberg 2020
The successor to Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1932 Fellowship program, the School of Architecture at Taliesin (SoAT) will close at the end of the spring semester, it was announced January 28, 2020. There have been efforts the last few years to find ways for the school to be accredited and to remain financially sustainable. Students spent spring and summer at Taliesin, and migrated to Taliesin West in Arizona in fall. This is a selection of related photos from my files.
The drafting room at Hillside School (at Taliesin).
Student work is presented in the drafting room, September 2006.
Aaron Betsky, President of SoAT, was a guest at the annual Wright birthday celebration at Taliesin. Here, in 2016 with Stuart Graff, President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Aaron Betsky at the 2019 birthday celebration.
A student’s bicycle rests outside the drafting studio at Hillside School, 2018.
Students presented the birthday cake for Wright at the annual celebration at Taliesin:
Wright’s portrait hangs in the drafting room at Taliesin West, 2014.
The birthday cake is presented.
Minerva Montooth greets guests at her home…Taliesin.
Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, describes his concrete (really!) bowtie to guests.
Jack Holzhueter, left, Mike Lilek (Frank Lloyd Wright’s Burnham Block, Inc.,) and Steve Sikora (Malcolm Willey House)
The tables are turned on the photographer.
Wright in Racine 