A Lasting Impact: The Taliesin Fellowship
The Taliesin Fellowship was created in 1932 when 23 apprentices came to live at Taliesin, the house Wright built in Wisconsin, to learn from Wright. Education at Taliesin emphasized painting, sculpture, music, drama, and dance. At first Wright had few commissions to teach apprentices so he mainly had them working around Taliesin."The apprentices quarried the stone and burned limestone and sifted sand from the adjacent Wisconsin River to make mortar. They cut trees and sawed them into dimensional lumber, and along with the masonry, built the large studio, now on the National Register of Historic Places, that still serves as the center of learning on the Spring Green campus and as an active architectural studio."
The Taliesin Fellowship grew quickly into an architectural laboratory. During the first winter the fellowship moved to Arizona and built Taliesin West. This seasonal moving between locations has become a tradition at the Taliesin Fellowship. After Wright's death the fellowship was kept going by alumni apprentices and Wright's wife, Olgivanna. In 1996, the apprenticeship program became the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. This is a lasting impact of Frank Lloyd Wright since young architects today still learn about the principles Wright used in his own architecture. The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is why Wright's design elements are still seen in residential architecture today. |