Since Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West- his winter home and school in the desert-, students have been living in canvas tents as an alternative dorm. It was direct study of nature and the land, both important elements of Wright’s organic architecture. Today the Shelter Program has evolved and students can design and build more complicated structures (they’re given a $1000 stipend and encouraged to raise more), but the small shelters continue to be off-grid, unplumbed and often without walls. This direct contact with the desert helps students confront just what is needed to provide shelter. “To me an architect is a man who,” wrote Wright in his autobiography, “knows the secrets of nature and studies them, is informed by them and comes out stronger with knowledge.” Stephanie Schull, director of academic affairs at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, gave us a tour of a few of the 60 odd shelters (Note: We appreciate her giving us an impromptu tour and want to make clear that the opinions she gave during the interview were her opinions and not part of any school philosophy). Taliesin Shelter Program http://www.taliesin.edu/sheltersmain.html Original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/survivalist-tiny-dorms-at-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-arq-school/

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1. Frank Lloyd Wright was not his real name his last name was something like Belushi do a Google search on Frank Lloyd Wright and you will find this out to be correct his son went to Chicago and did building designing he didn't want to be cast in his Father's Footsteps and the son used his real name I saw one on a show called my strange inheritance the son inherited the home his father built
2. Frank Lloyd Wright was not his real name his last name was something like Belushi do a Google search on Frank Lloyd Wright and you will find this out to be correct his son went to Chicago and did building designing he didn't want to be cast in his Father's Footsteps and the son used his real name I saw one on a show called my strange inheritance the son inherited the home his father built
3. it is so wasted
4. i just can get that how this thing has so many likes?
5. the desert floor is not that delicate. Obviously if everyone is tromping around in one area it will get to looking like shit but it wouldn't take decades to make it right again. my property is desert and it has been trampled before from vehicles and construction, you just rake it all back around randomly and give it a few months of non abuse and it looks the same as it ever did. one rain and plants grow again. the desert floor is very resilient. I do appreciate that she respects it though but yeah, not that delicate.
6. Those power lines must have really pissed the guy off!
7. That'll learn'em! Hah. :)
8. Weird,none of these are minimalist in the true sense of the word,maybe the one without walls,maybe they were smoking some powerful stuff. ;-)
9. waste of land and materials
10. How do you get into this program, I have been with doing building for people, I am also a certified jig building for BOEING , I was not able to work for them, because of insurance.I am quite a bit older now & still dreams of building , thank you .The person that started Frank Lloyd Taliesin architecture has been my favorite . THANK YOU AGAIN .
11. I studied architecture at the Sims Freeplay University lol.
12. I found this very interesting. Thank you.
13. Astonished at the negative comments below. Thank you for this video. I will watch it again.
14. fuck that Scottsdale... give me Afghanistan any day.
15. I pray I never live anywhere near a scruffy desert. Water goes well with life.
16. take your shoes off and feel the desert.
17. I learned about shelter in the Army, called a poncho 550 chord and a tree or two, a lean too if you will, I understand giving students the chance to lean practicality over access, I can actually spot the ones that were critical thinkers vs the over thinkers, still an interesting view on peoples ideas
18. .Don Erickson, Richard Erickson and Dennis Stevens were there around the late 1940's. The three started a business in the Chicago area. I visited this area in 1969 and my fathers structure was all but gone. I do have color pics. Yes the small almost translucent scorpions are very venomous.
19. Thanks for documenting so many amazing places around the planet
20. Eeek... there are scorpions out there!