Tucked in the desert of North Scottsdale, Taliesin West was the winter home of one of the most innovative and well-known American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, who was known for his unorthodox and contemporary architectural style. Open for tours, it’s not the only Wrightdesigned location to visit in the Valley. View the Frank Lloyd Wright Spire, a blue and green, internally illuminated spire that glows each evening, rising from the corner of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard and Scottsdale Road in Scottsdale. First Christian Church in Phoenix, built in 1971, is another of his designs. The triangular spire reaches 77 feet high, and native stones are blended into the walls. Gammage Auditorium, located on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, was one of Wright’s last publicly commissioned projects. And for the Arizona Biltmore, which opened in 1929, Wright acted as the consulting architect in its design, partnering and collaborating with his former student, Albert Chase McArthur.
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