This may surprise some who've heard, well, yeah, but it's a dry heat", but it's fookin hot there in July.
I visited Taliesin West and took the Behind The Scenes Tour. 60 bucks for three hours was a little surprising, but there were only six of us on the tour and we got to hear FLLW's personal physician (?!) and Roy Arnold (one of Wright's original/surviving apprentices) speak. They also served a small very tasty snack plate in the dining room.
To say the place needs an extreme historical landmark makeover is putting it mildly.
formatting link
concrete looks good, but pretty much everything else on the exterior of the buildings needs a lot of help. I'm curious how much the place has deteriorated in the last twenty years or whether they are barely holding their own. Anyone here visit the place?
I also visited Cosanti.
formatting link
Solieri is apparently still in residence, but I guess he was reclusing while I was there. I watched one of the foundry pours of their bronze wind chimes/bells and that was very interesting. Why someone in AZ in the middle of July would want a job that makes Hell look like an Autumn vacation, I'll never know.
R