Description
Built as a wintertime activity base in the middle of Arizona desert,Taliesin West offers a complete different view from Taliesin amidst the vast natural setting in Wisconsin.
The two points and lines are evidences that Wright’s designs have sprouted from mother nature.
Its vigorous figure made of concrete and stone having edge over the desert conveys to this day the essence of Wright’s art, together with the cactus climbing up to the sky.
‘The Ocotilla camp is an important element in the history of Taliesin West because of its use of textiles for an overhead roofing. While he was working on his Autobiography, he was also building Ocotilla, and his own description of the camp has the sense of something in the making rather than the description of a finished building. “The box-board cambins,” he wrote, “are connected by a low box-board wall with a horizontal zigzag-for the same reason Thomas Jefferson worm-walled his brick.” [The reference is to the low brick serpentine wall Jefferson designed for his buildings at the University of Virginia. ed.] “It will be self-supporting and this will complete the compound. Necessary openings on the canvas-topped box buildings we will close with canvas-covered wood frames. Flaps hinged with rubber belting. No glazed doors or windows. Glass is not for this type of desert camp if indeed glass belongs in……………. by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.’
252 pages, 104 in color / 16 x 23 cm/ Englih
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