Visited Frank Lloyd Wright's winter campus in Scottsdale AZ today. Beautiful place! Another architectural monument birthed out of and imbued with the heritage of the Great Depression. Wright came west from Illinois in 1930 and was out of work. He bought the land with borrowed money and all materials (including brown butcher paper for his sketches) was found or donated. His students and skilled labor worked long and hard building the place for only food, lodging, and fellowship until Wright's Falling Water house hit the cover of Time magazine in 1936. Then they finally got to start drafting! Frank, our tour guide today, has been there since 1936. The structures were built from sketches (no measured drawings except a site plan) and modified repeatedly...oh what fun to have a laboratory of that magnitude to experiment in! This is a place I'd love to spend a week!
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