Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona

About this book

"Wright fell in love with the desert quickly and profoundly " writes Lawrence W. Cheek. "It was a vast blank canvas ... it was an open-air warehouse of natural forms colors and textures that both delighted and inspired him." Frank Lloyd Wright first came to Arizona in 1928. In this spectacular desert landscape he built his winter headquarters Taliesin West and found a passion that drove him for the next 31 years of his life. In the first book to focus solely on Wrights work in Arizona Lawrence W. Cheek explores the twelve breathtaking buildings that Wright contributed to the state. Cheek also delves into the audacious mischievous egocentric and often outrageous life of Frank Lloyd Wright and examines todays Taliesin West still a center of vigilant devotion to the man often called the greatest architect of the twentieth century. 50 color photos.