Taliesin West And Power Lines

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan

6 October 2003 - 12:00pm

Frank Lloyd Wright fought power lines near Taliesin West.

"It was 1948 and all Frank Lloyd Wright wanted was to bury the power lines that would span Taliesin West, the architecture center he had built in north Scottsdale a decade earlier...The power company refused to go underground, and the famed architect fumed. Wright went to local authorities and then went higher."

Full Story: Famed architect fumed over raised power lines

Source: The Arizona Republic, October 6, 2003

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