subject: Scottsdale Homes [print this page] So many families are eager to purchase real estate in Scottsdale, Arizona, that there must be a pretty good reason why. One prominent reason is the wide range of indoor and outdoor activities available.
In 1937, the world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, bought some of Scottsdale's undeveloped real estate. In northeast Scottsdale, in the luxurious Sonoran desert, nestled in the McDowell Mountains' shadows, Wright constructed Taliesin West, to serve as his studio, personal winter residence, and architectural campus.
Visitors from all over the globe still flock to Taliesin West as it has become what is essentially a living laboratory of his design ideas as well as his legacy. Wright's private home is open to visitors and has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to look inside and out how it did when first built in the 1930s.
Taliesin West tours allow guests to witness the architect's integration of inside and outside space regularly in tours lasting from one to three hours. The breathtaking gardens, terraces, and walkways that are so much a part of the Music Pavilion, Cabaret Theater, Wright's office, and Kiva, provide amazing views of the valley and rocky desert below, and are points of interest on some of the available tours.
One of the loveliest of Scottsdale's resort properties, Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa, also reflects Wright's unique architectural vision according the the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors' Bureau. Along with Wright's influence, this extravagant resort boasts a past that includes many well known Hollywood visitors.
The real estate landscape in Scottsdale has also been greatly influence by one of Wrights students, Vernon Swaback. Swaback helped design and build award-winning custom homes, hotels, office buildings and recreational areas in the Paradise Valley, Phoenix and Scottsdale areas in the two decades he spent at Taliesin West. Good luck from mesahomesforsale.biz
