However, in our contemporary situation filled with such connectivity, it seems impossible to actually be lost. People who ventured into the desert throughout history purportedly always require being lost, in a way, to find themselves. The Spring 2019 Immersion studio was informed by the seeming impossibility of being lost in contemporary society.
Students come together from all walks and stages of life to build an uncommon bond with one another and with the current Masters students. The Immersion course itself involves guided instruction in the execution of a conceptual project as well as a hands-on design-build component. The students are allowed to attend all other classes being taught during their stay while living and working on the historic campus of Wright’s Taliesin or Taliesin West, depending on the time of year.
Those accepted to the program have no previous experience in architecture and stay at the school for eight weeks to work on a guided project, applying Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of learning-by-doing. Immersion is a unique program offered by SoAT. This semester, a call for a softer, shaded space was answered. Originally a home on the Taliesin West campus, the student lounge is a space of constant experimentation by, and for, students. Together, they formed one part of a larger project to renovate and expand the student lounge. Each group worked on the same remote desert site, with one group creating furniture and the other group creating a shading structure. That project was augmented by a two-week long design-build addition by a group of students from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Beginning in January, five students in the Immersion program began working on an eight-week long design-build project. The spring semester at the School of Architecture at Taliesin (SoAT) was humming with activity.
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