Too bad.

- Closure[edit] On January 28, 2020, the school announced that it would cease operations on both campuses and close by June 2020.[5][6][7] According to this announcement, the school's governing board determined that "the School did not have a sustainable business model that would allow it to maintain its operation as an accredited program."[8] This announcement followed the failure of discussions between the board and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation about the creation of new, non-accredited educational programs.[7] At the time of the announcement, the school indicated they were negotiating an agreement for the 30 currently enrolled students to transfer to The Design School at ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.[7][8]

This followed a 2014 challenge to the school's accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, on the grounds that the accredited institution was not incorporated separately from it's funding organization, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.[9][10] The school maintained its accreditation through the 2020 closure announcement by establishing itself as an independent entity.[8][11][3][12] Subsequently, students, alumni and staff clashed over proposed partnerships with other institutions and the school suffered financial difficulties.[13]

It was reported that prior to the closure announcement, the school and the Foundation were in talks to develop alternative educational programming that did not require accreditation.[7] According to the foundation, the proposals that emerged from these discussions were not approved by the school's board.[8]...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Architecture_at_Taliesin

Oh well, it appears that we really are in the age of change.

He started the school as a way of making a comeback which worked for him because he was still pretty famous. It seems strange to us now, but he didn’t get work for quite a while so in order to stay relevant he started this school. There were plenty of young architects who filled it because they admired his work.

I saw a documentary on Netflix I think.

It’s sad. I wonder what they’ll do with the buildings.

at her college in the late 1930s, early 40s. He was pleasant and interesting she said. One time I was in in Scottsdale and planned to visit Taliesin but ran out of time.

museums. He shouldn’t be forgotten. He was an artist who designed every bit of the furnishings too. He insisted that anyone who owned the buildings had to leave the interiors the way he made them. He designed and made all the furniture, the lamps, lighting, the wall decorations, bathroom appliances and the grounds. Everything.

I visited Taliesin in AZ. years ago and was amazed. Sad.

I was just there last year in that studio pictured and
believe it or not one of the agreements FLW made was that any of his own students could stay as long as they wanted to at TW when he was running it and there was quite an old gentleman there getting coffee when we were in one room having a stop for refreshments and it was near the students’ quarters and our docent leading the tour told us that way he was one of the original FLW students that chose to continue to stay all these years at TW
I believe there was another old gentleman who was also a student of FLW that’s still at Tw who I did not encounter, but the tour guide spoke mentioned. Living connections to FLW still remained there .
Reading this and considering their age I was just wondering where they will go if those students’ areas are closed , but perhaps they will be still there since they are already part of TW + not just the school but they won’t interact with the current student group anymore
And students won’t have that immersion and inspiration of TW
When FLW was alive he and his students would all get in a group of his fancy cars – including Competition Sports cars and leave from Wisconsin , travel on the road like a convoy and head out to spend the winter in the west in Arizona
then when spring came the students would travel back as a convoy to Wisconsin !
He was very interested in cars and design .
He also visualized drive-up banking way before it became a reality, although his 1947 plan for a Tucson, Arizona, bank was met with less than enthusiasm by conservative bankers, who thought it preposterous to think anyone would conduct banking business from a car

https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Media/Home/Reader/an-architects-love-of-automobiles-frank-lloyd-wrights-passion-for-cars-took-many-forms/

There is a lot of FLW connections out there in AZ so the special school community on site will be missed what a disruption So much of TW set up for students ,that’s sad it’s no more

The last home FLW designed, which is also out in that area near Phoenix, just recently sold
https://ktla.com/2019/11/08/last-home-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wright-sells-for-1-67-million-in-phoenix/