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Arizona’s Must-See Architectural Tourist Attractions

Scottsdale, Arizona is an Architectural Treasure Trove of  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Work  Internationally renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and studio, Taliesin West is one of eight Wright buildings recently inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Taliesin West serves as a prime example of Wright’s organic architecture built with a […]

100 Years of Bauhaus Endures in Florida Modernism

2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus movement that became a way of life and thinking still resonating today.  Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school in Germany in 1919 with interdisciplinary ideals merging art and technology, collectively called modernism.  Bauhaus means “School of Building,” in German and it attracted students who wanted to build […]

Florida Southern College’s Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture

An Architecture Tourism Must-See Site On land that was once an orange grove in Central Florida, sits the world’s largest single-site collection of structures designed by famed modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright. I recently toured Florida Southern College, a steward of Wright’s architectural legacy, where 13 buildings he designed comprise the majority of campus.  The story of […]