Taliesin West Bursts Forth From The Desert Floor
The pink color of the Southwest desert landscape with its weathered terrain and sloping mountain ridges jumps out as a strong and unifying theme central to the dreams that Frank Lloyd Wright had for Taliesin West.
Among Arizona's most desolate looking canyons, and on the desert floor below, Wright caught a glimpse of Nature with some of Earth's greatest beauty and splendor.
Frank Lloyd Wright unleashed the distinctive rose color of the Sonoran Desert in his own designs at Taliesin West and in numerous buildings and homes througout the Southwest. Today, sixty-three years later, the pink colors of SAMARA can be traced to their origin in the raw materials of the same desert where Mr. Wright lifted from the Earth what is known as Usonian architecture.
It's beyond our collective imaginations to conceive exactly what Frank Lloyd Wright was about to accomplish with the Sonoran landscape. Examination of Wright's designs in the natural environment of the Sonoran Desert gives us a hint about the transformations he had in mind.
The uniform pink hues of Wright's studio and home mimic the surrounding landscape with their distinctive horizontal and angular forms matching the soft rose palette of the desert sands.