The David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix will host community events and artists in residence One of Frank Lloyd Wright?s later residential designs, the nautilus-like 1952 David and Gladys Wright House, will be donated to the School of Architecture at Taliesin. According to an announcement this morning, the donation will allow school administrators, professors, students, and visiting scholars to live at the home and become artists in residence.
?The School of Architecture has a long tradition of apprenticeship,? said Aaron Betsky, the school?s current dean. ?What?s great about this is that we get to live in Frank Lloyd Wright?s work. This allows us to come off the hills, be right in the middle of the Phoenix valley, and live and work inside this incredible house. It helps us as students and teachers understand how we can live in the desert southwest.? Owner Zach Rawling, who purchased the home in 2012 for $2.4 million and saved it from demolition, approached the school with the idea of using the home as a ?living laboratory.? Rawling had previously set up a foundation with the intent of turning the home into a museum, but believes the donation, and new purpose, will help preserve the home?s legacy while opening it up to the public. Some neighbors were concerned the museum, and its potential role as a commercial event space for rent, would bring excess traffic to the neighborhood, but the planned role as a residential and educational space should eliminate those fea...