The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today its Camp Taliesin West program will return this summer with an expanded lineup of architecture, science, engineering, art and photography camps, available for K-12 students both in-person at Taliesin West, the World Heritage Site in Scottsdale, as well as virtually through Zoom.
Combining academic relevance with Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed principles of organic architecture and solutions-based design, each summer camp features its own unique variation of hands-on projects and activities designed to encourage participants to think critically, creatively and sustainably, just as Wright himself once did. Strongly geared toward students with an interest in architecture and STEAM disciplines, camp curriculums include a range of collaborative design experiments and model-building activities, tours of the site customized to each camp’s focus, exclusive access to subject-matter experts and more, with this year’s revamped program now encompassing urban planning and interior design lessons as well.
Nestled in the desert foothills of the McDowell Mountains, the iconic location of Taliesin West, that once served as Wright’s winter home and desert laboratory, doubles as both an intimate, camp-like setting and a real-world demonstration of the prolific architect’s principles. For architecture aficionados who reside beyond the southwest, however, the Foundation has re-tooled its popular camp program to fit a virtual albeit equally immersive format.
