| When most people think of architecture in Arizona | | | | for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and a school |
| they think adobe homes and historic spanish revival | | | | for architects. On any given day you can spot guided |
| house plans popular in the area. Although Arizona is | | | | tours and architects alike engaged in the history of |
| for the most part a sprawling desert landscape, there | | | | the building. Frank Lloyd Wright also designed many |
| remains a great diversity in the building options in the | | | | other homes and building in the area, including Grady |
| state and countless ways to incorporate the natural | | | | Gammage Auditorium, which is housed on the Arizona |
| beauty of the surrounding into your home design. | | | | State University campus. The other side of the |
| But looking north to the cooler climate of Flagstaff | | | | country holds Taliesin, his summer residence, in Spring |
| and the surrounding areas, there are options for | | | | Green, Wisconsin |
| building something more rustic to match the | | | | One reason that Wright's architecture remains popular |
| landscape. Free loghome plans remain a popular home | | | | in Arizona is his use of organic architecture. This |
| design in the area. The log home design facilitates | | | | concept of architecture progresses unaffectedly out |
| sound construction that does not attempt to | | | | of the surrounding. He emphasized the importance on |
| overshadow the beauty found in the surrounding | | | | the relationship between the building and its |
| Coconino National Forest. | | | | surroundings. Wright would not, for example, take |
| Taliesin West, designed by the late architect Frank | | | | country cottage house plans and impose them on a |
| Lloyd Wright, remains both an architectural icon and | | | | landscape such as the Arizona desert. Her looked to |
| point of state pride. From 1937 until his passing in | | | | pair the right materials with the given surroundings. |
| 1959, Taliesin West served as his winter home and | | | | For desert homes he relied heavily on stone, |
| school in the desert. Each year thousands of tourists | | | | whereas in green, tree-lined, forest regions he made |
| flock from all over the world to walk in his footsteps. | | | | use of wood. |
| Frank The building now serves dually as headquarters | | | | |