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We believe that architecture should unfold out of our landscapes, our materials, our craft, and the traditions of organic architecture. We will be the boldest experimental architecture school in the world.
Building on Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs and thoughts,we are a graduate program in architecture that teaches and practices learning by doing, new ways of looking, an ability to honor and build with the landscape and experimentation.
This past Spring 2023 semester, TSOA presented the second edition of John Lautner’s Pearlman Cabin & Walstrom Residence exhibition at Architekton, in collaboration with the Organic Architecture + Design Archives and the John Lautner Foundation. This exhibition, featuring two unique residential works by Lautner, a renowned American architect and early apprentice of the Taliesin Fellowship, first opened to the public at Arcosanti in the Fall of 2022, and was re-located and re-organized by TSOA students at the offices of Architekton in Tempe, Arizona.
The School recognizes that we live in a world to which architecture must contribute in a thoughtful and free manner. Our curriculum pushes students to explore beyond current boundaries by using concrete forms, images, and materials, rather than relying solely on abstraction or being limited by preconceptions. As a result, the School integrates theory, design, and construction to make communities better places to live, work and play.
Our curriculum honors diversity in all its aspects. We respect the many sources for design and work to provide a context in which communities can make room for all their members, as well as for each other.
Within an accredited Master of Architecture degree framework, and with the design studio as the core of the curriculum, the School relies on the following:
