The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which Frank Lloyd Wright established nearly 90 years ago, will shut in June, after failing to come to a financial agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
The school released a statement today that its board was forced to make the "gut-wrenching decision" to close both of its campuses in Scottsdale, Arizona and Spring Green, Wisconsin. It added that its backers had called the move "tragic".
"The School of Architecture at Taliesin will cease operations after this semester, after a gut-wrenching decision by its governing board on Saturday," said the statement.
School did "everything possible" to fight for survival
"The School of Architecture at Taliesin was not able to reach an agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep the school open," it added. Dan Schweiker, a chairperson of the governing board, said that they did "everything possible to fight for its survival" but were unable to reach an agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which owns the school's campuses at Taliesin in Wisconsin and Taliesin West in Arizona.
"The closure of the school is very emotional for our students, our faculty and staff and all of us who worked so hard for this one-of-a-kind institution and its important role in Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy," Schweiker said.
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