Taliesin West Offers Free Presentations on Architecture

Every winter, Taliesin West hosts a series of lectures featuring prominent professionals in the architecture and design world. This year's series has just two presenters left! If you want to get your architecture fix, here are the details about the remaining lectures:

Diane Reicher Jacobs
Holly Street Studio Architects
Thursday, 04/21/2011 - 7:00PM

Diane Reicher Jacobs of Phoenix's Holly Street Studio Architects is the guest of honor at Thursday's lecture series at Taliesin West. Holly Street Studio is a Phoenix-based architecture firm whose recent projects include the new Exhibition Hall at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, the Maryvale Pool House, and the Helen Drake Senior Center in Downtown Phoenix.
The firm is currently working with ASU to redesign a historic US Federal Post Office in Downtown Phoenix. Holly Street received a Citation Award from the Arizona Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2009.

Brad Cloepfil
Allied Works Architecture
Thursday, 04/28/2011 - 7:00PM

Finishing out this year's lecture series will be Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture on April 28th, 2011. Allied Works is a Portland-based firm that also has an office in New York. As the founder and head of the 40-person company, Cloepfil oversees all aspects of his company's designs.

Allied Works has designed everything from private residences and lofts to schools, art museums, and even the headquarters for Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California. A new book featuring the company's projects and ideas is scheduled to be published in the Spring of 2011.

Both lectures will be held in the Pavilion Theater at Taliesin West, located at:
12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd.
Scottsdale, AZ 85259

You do not have to be a student of the Taliesin school to attend! These lectures are free to the public and are sponsored by the Rio Salado Architecture Foundation. For more information, please visit https://franklloydwright.org/.