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Oasis - Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs for the Arizona Capitol
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    • South End of Oasis

    • South End of Oasis

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • "These preliminary drawings indicate a high, wide, sheltering crenelated-canopy of modern structure - like a great tree, filtering sunlight over subordinate but beautiful buildings and gardens standing together beneath the canopy in harmonious...
    • Looking to North over Oasis

    • Looking to North over Oasis

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • Courtesy of the Phoenix Art Museum: "Arizona's natural landscape inspired Frank Lloyd Wright's 1957 design for the Arizona State Capitol. Although never built, he pictured the building near the red rock buttes of Papago Park in Phoenix,...
    • Open Hexagonal Canopy Work

    • Open Hexagonal Canopy Work

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • "The 400 foot wide sheltering hexagonal crenelated skeleton canopy filtering sunlight over the structure beneath - like the foliage of a great tree - cutting down air-conditioning in the Valley of the Sun."
    • Legislative Building with Adjacent Offices

    • Legislative Building with Adjacent Offices

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • "In balcony level areas of the legislature, public seating may easily be extended. Private parking scheme for the legislative body and the executive are provided at special entrance for the legislature. For the public, on either side near the...
    • Looking West over Oasis

    • Looking West over Oasis

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • "Citizens of Arizona - the State is your home! Your spirit should there find appropriate expression. To build an already dated New York monstrosity to stand up to present Arizona to posterity seems to me a crime punishable by you - yourselves. ...
    • Damaged Oasis Model

    • Damaged Oasis Model

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation;

    • Many parts of the model had become broken or destroyed over the years.
    • Looking to the East over Oasis

    • Looking to the East over Oasis

    • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

    • Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation; Architectural Models

    • ’Oasis’ was Frank Lloyd Wright’s suggested, but officially unsolicited, proposal for a new Arizona State Capitol design. The design has been recreated in this three dimensional model now on display at the Phoenix Art Museum through April 29...

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