Architecture School By Frank Lloyd Wright To Close

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10. I was just there last year very sad news

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/